[Mono-list] library location problem

[Christophe VG]

Hi,

I have some problems with compiling/running applications with additional
libraries.

If I compile a library of my own in the current directory and next
compile a test program in a sub directory of the current directory, all
goes well. When I try to run this compiled testprogram mono complains
about not able to find the library, but when I copy the .exe from the
subdirectory to the current directory and execute it, it works.

Here's an overview (probably much clearer :

[ntt@taurus example]$ ls
Test.dll    Makefile   t

[ntt@taurus example]$ mcs t/test-1.cs
t/test-1.cs(7) error CS0246: Cannot find type `ExampleModule'
Error: Compilation failed
RESULT: 1
[ntt@taurus example]$ mcs -r Test.dll t/test-1.cs
RESULT: 0

[ntt@taurus example]$ mono t/test-1.exe 

** (process:19394): WARNING **: Could not find assembly Test
/usr/lib/Test.dll
Can not open image t/test-1.exe

[ntt@taurus example]$ cp t/test-1.exe .
[ntt@taurus example]$ mono test-1.exe 
creating example object
Test.ExampleModule::Constructor
calling example object functionality
Test.ExampleModule::DoSomething()
RESULT: 0

It seems that mono looks for the .dll in /usr/lib (the default location
depending on compilation) and the current directory, but only the
current directory relative to the source file.


It would come in handy to be able to pass a (third) directory to mono
where it should look for libraries. This way a user could have its own
directory with libraries and still tell mono to _also_ look there. Also
for testing before installing libraries this feature would come in
handy.

(or I am missing the point again ;-) )

Thanks,
Christophe VG


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