[Mono-list] error building Nant with Nant (using mono in linux)

[Paolo Molaro]

On 12/30/02 Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> I'm trying to build Nant with Nant under linux and I have a problem (see 
> below).
> Can anybody help me find out where exactly the problem is? (is the mono 
> class libraries, or the jit/interpreter?)
> -----
> japj@debian:~/cvs/mcs/nant$ mono --debug ./Nant.exe
> Buildfile: /home/japj/cvs/mcs/nant/NAnt.build
>   [tstamp] 12/30/2002 12:56:35
> 
> INTERNAL ERROR
> System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination 
> type

This is probably fixed in cvs.

> Note I have first build Nant using "msc /out:NAnt.exe /recurse:*.cs". 
> When I try to run the resulting Nant in Windows I get
> 
> -----
> Buildfile: D:\cvs_wa\mono\mcs\nant\NAnt.build
>   [tstamp] 12/30/2002 13:59:14
> 
> INTERNAL ERROR
> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 
> System.Text.RegularExpressions.Reg
> exCollectionBase from assembly System, Version=1.0.3300.0, 
> Culture=neutral, Publ
> icKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089.

This is an issue with our implementation of regular expressions.
I'll work on a fix.

lupus

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