[Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option

[Ian MacLean]

Jon wrote:

>>-nostdlib does two things.  It keeps corlib.dll from being loaded by
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> default.
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>>The second thing is what's causing you problems.  -nostdlib tells mcs to
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> grab
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>>all types from the files it's compiling.  This includes the base types,
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> such
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>>as System.Object (which you were getting errors about).

Hmm I think the second part is incorrect behaviour. if you add a 
reference to another corlib then it should find the types there. If you 
use csc.exe with the following commandline:

csc -nostdlib -r:C:\mono-0.20\install\lib\corlib.dll Class1.cs

it works fine. However with

csc -nostdlib -r:C:\mono-0.20\install\lib\corlib.dll Class1.cs it fails. 
  I don't think there is anything in the docs on -nostdlib that indicate 
that the compiler should ignore all -r flags when its set.

>>The only reason to use -nostdlib is when compiling corlib itself, which
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> should
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>>use the types defined in corlib, *not* types definied in the previous
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> version
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>>of corlib.
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>>You shouldn't need -nostdlib.  It's "for internal use only." ;-)

really ? thats not the impression I get from reading the ms docs on 
nostdlib.

Ian