[Mono-list] What info output file(CIL) has?

[Peter Kahle]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:07:03AM -0700, mani gandan wrote:
> 
> >But as far as I could guess, you still require mcs to execute it (mcs
> .>/foo.exe).
> >IMO, what Mani means is that instead of calling "mcs ./foo.exe", I
> >should be able to just call "./foo.exe" and execute it on Linux. Is that
> >true, Mani?
> You are exactly correct........
 
 I'm not sure this is exactly what you want, but it's possible, at least
 in theory, to use the binfmt kernel module in linux to know that, when
 you call ./foo.exe, where foo.exe is a CIL file, it should actually run
 it as if you'd typed 'mono ./foo.exe' This doesn't require any
 conversion of the actual executable, only a file telling the module
 what to look for in the executable, and what executable to use to run
 it (kinda like the #! line in a script) On my debian system, the files
 are in /usr/share/binfmts, but that's probably different on different
 distros. Oh, and it looks like there might be conflict between mono and
 wine as to how to handle windows executables.

 Hope that helps,
 P

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