[Mono-list] Re: JIT/Win32 binaries

Guenther Roith groith@tcrz.net
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:35:23 +0200


yes, I think Serges way would truely the best. I'm working on this for my
windows setup package, but didn't manage.
I would really like if things would go this way, as it features easy
installation, without setting anything and we wouldn't have the
path-problem I discribed in my former mail.



> What would be a good way of dealing with this on Windows?

>In fact, Java (starting from 1.2 I believe) uses exe-relative paths to find
>JRE libraries, such as ../lib/rt.jar; (JVM itself is in bin dir).
>This is quite convenient. This also allows to simply copy runtime from one
>machine to another.

>BTW, I just compiled mint/mono with more complete wrapper DLL, covering all
>APIs used in Mono and it now runs fine under W9x. Well, it locks machine
>after some time :-) but under Win2k it's running very well so far.