[Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option

[Piers Haken]

unless something fundamental in the runtime has change recently, i don't
think it's so easy a fix. the problem being that you cannot reflect on a
corlib other than the one being used for execution. a while ago i
suggested adding support for Assembly.Load()ing multiple corlibs, but it
got turned down becuse it's too hard given the current type architecture
in the runtime. apparently.

piers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel@ximian.com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:21 PM
To: Gert Driesen
Cc: jopryor; mono-list
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option


Hello,

> 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.
>=20
> 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 ?

In the MCS compiler -nostdlib turns on a special mode in which the
compiler is setup for self-hosting.  Since the compiler is written in C#
and uses System.Reflection as its core type repository, there a number
of assumptions in the code about the meaning of this flag.

In reality we should three states:

	* Normal state.

	* Do not load default libraries, I will provide them in the
	  command line

	* Do not load default libraries, and setup for corlib bootstrap

Today -nostdlib stands for (3), while the behavior you want is (2).  It
is not very hard to fix, but it is a very low priority for me.  If
someone wants to do it, feel free to send a patch.

Miguel
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