[Mono-list] Gonzalo's bootstrap tarball

[Chris Ball]

>> On 19 Apr 2003 01:59:56, Paul <paulf.johnson@ukonline.co.uk> said:

   > Are the files in Gonzalo's tarball linux executables or MS
   > executables - all I'm getting is that they're typed as
   > x-ms-executable instead of x-executable when I look at any 
   > of the .exe files in the bin directory.

Paul,

mcs.exe is written in C# and runs under mono itself, so is neither a
native Linux _or_ Windows executable.  It'll show up as a Win32 binary,
because mono understands the PE binary format.  This is necessary - for
example, you could compile up a .NET binary under Windows, copy it to a
Linux machine with mono and execute it directly.

(And, likewise, you can copy a binary compiled under Linux over to the
Windows .NET runtime and run it there.)

   $ mcs test.cs
   Compilation succeeded
   $ file test.exe
   test.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 GUI executable

- Chris.
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