[Mono-list] Creating a minimal runtime

[Guenther Roith]

> groith@tcrz.net (Guenther Roith) wrote:
> > Put corlib one directory bleow in "lib"
> > e.g. your files are in c:\somthing\myfiles --> corlib.dll is in
> > c:\something\lib
>
> That sounded confusing, but it worked. To recap, I had to
> do this:
>
> C:\NetTest\Bin\hello.exe + all other DLLs
> C:\NetTest\Lib\corlib.dll + any other mono dlls
>
> So the next question is: why is the default library
> search path "../lib"? Seems a strange choice.
>


The path to the mono assemblys is hardcoded to ../lib
Thats because a unix system has a directory tree like this:

/bin
/usr
/etc
/lib
/home
/sbin
/share

...

Normally executables are put in /bin or /usr/bin (where the sub-tree is
similiar) and libaries are in /lib.
For comaptiblity it makes sense to keep that. If you however want to change
edit /mono/mono/os/win32/util.c
and change the value and then recompile.

Johannes