[Mono-list] Mono search path

[Kevin Jones]

Thanks Guys,

I figured it was something like that, good to confirm it though!

Kevin Jones

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:07, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> On 01/28/04 Kevin Jones wrote:
> > Core 1 with ICU support. After this I built NAnt, and I'm now trying to
> > use NAnt. My NAnt.exe is in ~/dev/nant/bin and if I do mono
> > ~/dev/nant/bin/NAnt/exe NAnt runs fine. However I want to run NAnt
> > without using the fully qualified name if possible. To do this I set
> > MONO_PATH, so
> > 
> > export MONO_PATH=~/dev/nant/bin/
> > mono NAnt.exe
> > 
> > This doesn't work. I was very sure that when I tried this initially it
> > did work, but after logging off and back onto Linux it's stopped
> > working. 
> > 
> > Am I correct in assuming that MONO_PATH should be enough to find the
> > 'exe' assembly?
> > Do I need to set anything else?
> > Is there someway of checking the path that Mono is using to locate
> > assemblies?
> 
> MONO_PATH is used only to locate library assemblies (.dll), maybe in the
> future we'll make it search for .exe, too.
> Currently there are two ways to do what you need:
> *) put Nant.exe in your PATH and setup the binfmt_misc kernel module
> to execute PE CLR files using mono automatically.
> *) write a small shell script that does the invocation for you:
> == cut cut ==
> #!/bin/sh
> exec path/to/mono path/to/Nant.exe "$@"
> == cut cut ==
> The second solution is the best one, since you'll be able to tweak with
> the command line parameters to pass to the JIT etc.
> 
> lupus