[Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option

[Gert Driesen]

Hi Jon,

What you're actually saying is that it's not possible to use Mcs.exe on
Windows to compile an assembly using the Mono system assemblies, without
running it using the Mono runtime.

I was hoping I could use the -nostblib option to force Mcs not to load the
MS.NET corlib.  But I guess it's not possible, right ?

Gert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jopryor" <jopryor@vt.edu>
To: "Gert Driesen" <gert.driesen@pandora.be>; "mono-list"
<mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: [Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option


> -nostdlib does two things.  It keeps corlib.dll from being loaded by
default.
>
> The second thing is what's causing you problems.  -nostdlib tells mcs to
grab
> all types from the files it's compiling.  This includes the base types,
such
> as System.Object (which you were getting errors about).
>
> The only reason to use -nostdlib is when compiling corlib itself, which
should
> use the types defined in corlib, *not* types definied in the previous
version
> of corlib.
>
> You shouldn't need -nostdlib.  It's "for internal use only." ;-)
>
>  - Jon
>
> >===== Original Message From Gert Driesen <gert.driesen@pandora.be> =====
> >Hi,
> >
> >Can anyone explain what the effect of specifying the -nostdlib option is
for
> the Mcs (using the Mono runtime or the .NET runtime) ?
> >
> >For the MS.NET compiler it allows you to specify another mscorlib.dll
that
> should be linked instead of the .NET Framework mscorlib.dll.
> >
> >But for Mcs this does not seems to work :  when you want to build an
assembly
> using the Mono runtime you must use "mono mcs.exe [options]" although in
my
> opinion should be able to build an assembly using the Mono system
assemblies
> by using the following commandline :
> >
>
>mcs.exe -target:library -nostdlib -noconfig -out:log4net.dll -r:corlib.dll
> -r:System.dll -r:System.Xml.dll -r:System.Web.dll -recurse:*.cs
> >
> >But apparently it does not seems to link to the corlib.dll again, because
I
> get the following compile errors :
> >
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Object' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.ValueType' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Attribute' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.IComparable' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.ICloneable' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.IConvertible' is not defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.IEnumerable' is not
> defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.ICollection' is not
> defined
> >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.IEnumerator' is not
> defined
> >......
> >
> >Can anyone explain what the -nostdlib option is for then, and how I can
> compile compile an assembly with the Mono system assemblies without using
> Mono.exe Mcs.exe ?
> >
> >Gert
>
>
>