[Mono-list] bootstrapping System.dll

Richard Torkar richard.torkar@htu.se
19 Jun 2002 18:43:22 +0200


On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:39, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> mcs can compile the System assembly on Linux.
> I added a list.unix file to cvs in the mcs/class/System dir
> that you can use to compile it until we get nant working,
> just issue:
> 
> 	mcs @list.unix
> 
> There are still a couple of open issues with the generated binary, but
> it seems to work well enough that I changed my csc-compiled System.dll
> with it and mcs still bootstraps and I could also compile about 350
> test cases.
> So, if, you want to contribute to the classes in the System assembly you
> can do it now, without the need of the ms runtime.
> 
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Good work Paolo, and all the rest of course :)!

/Richard
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