[Mono-list] Re: JIT/Win32 binaries

Brad Wilson dotnetguy@pobox.com
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:25:09 -0700


Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> What would be a good way of dealing with this on Windows?  Should we use
> an environment variable?  A Registry key?  How can we make this better
> for Windows users?

On Windows, Microsoft .NET uses the PATH to find assemblies (unless they're
in the GAC, of course). There are plusses and minuses to this vs. the Java
way of having a new environment variable (CLASSPATH), but having something
hard coded is probably not a good idea. ;)

Brad

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