[Mono-list] hello.exe compiled using mcs on linux, fails to run on Windows

Paolo Molaro lupus@ximian.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:00:22 +0200


On 04/12/02 Dan Lewis wrote:
> > For example, PEVerify gives the error:
> > 
> > Unable to OpenScopeOnMemory for IMetaDataImport:80070057
> > 
> > Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what it means.
> 
> You might get some clues by looking at the .NET tool development kit.
> Particularly the metainfo tool sample (in FrameworkSDK\Tool Developers
> Guide\Samples\metainfo), which uses the exported Microsoft runtime interfaces
> to dump the metadata for an assembly.

Well, I'm not going to taint myself reading ms code, plus, if it uses
the ms runtime interfaces, it will fail in the same way, won't it?
p.net can read our files just fine, so I guess this is an issue that is
(at least) poorly specified in the spec.

lupus

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