[Mono-list] how is the compiler / class libraries compiled over Linux?

[Juli Mallett]

* De: "Piyush, Garyali (IE10)" <Piyush.Garyali@honeywell.com> [ Data: 2002-10-30 ]
	[ Subjecte: [Mono-list] how is the compiler / class libraries compiled over Linux? ]
> 
> In case of Linux we don't have the .NET Framework, so how does the compiler
> [mcs] get built?? [as it is purely is C#]
> 

Well, we can run CIL, you see, so as MCS is a CIL executable, it can be
bootstrapped using a binary-only version of itself.  The releases and
snapshots include an mcs.exe for this purpose.
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