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[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

mono-basic does not depend on already having a compiler in order to compile
(the git repository contains a bootstrapping compiler). On a Linux system
all you need is having Mono installed already and run 'make' from the
command-line; on Windows you can compile the solution using Visual Studio.

The compiler itself is located in the vbnc/vbnc directory:
https://github.com/mono/mono-basic/tree/master/vbnc/vbnc

Best regards,
Rolf

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <
lonnie at biofuelstechnologyinc.com> wrote:

> Hi Rolf,
>
> Thanks for your reply and I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
>
> Actually, I want to play around with the mono-basic source code to see if
> I can get it to compile so that I can learn more about how it works.
>
> I would like to get a pre-compiled version of mono vbnc to see if I can
> compile the sources after which I would like work with the code a bit and
> see if I can improve it some as it would make a good scripting language for
> general purposes as well and would like to see if it can be made into a
> standalone version.
>
> Mostly this is an initial learning exercise.  Can you please tell me what
> was the last Mono version that had this functional runtime and compiler
> working so that I might be able to download that older version to get the
> pre-compiled vbnc and runtime out?
>
> Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lonnie
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf at xamarin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The source code for Mono's VB implementation is located here:
>>
>> http://github.com/mono/mono-basic
>>
>> However the code is not up-to-date with the newest VB versions (it's
>> compatible with VB8, which came out with VS2005; i.e. it's 10 years old
>> now). My recommendation would be to look at the the Roslyn VB compiler from
>> Microsoft instead (
>> https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/VisualBasic),
>> unless you have any particular interest in our code.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Rolf
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <
>> lonnie at biofuelstechnologyinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All,
>>>
>>> I hope that you are doing well.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit new to Mono-VB but am interested in compiling up the mono
>>> VB.NET compiler to get a feel for the sources and play a bit with it on
>>> my windows machine.
>>>
>>> Given that, can someone please give me an idea as to what sources need
>>> to be downloaded from the Mono-GitHub?
>>>
>>> I found the older mono/mono-basic stuff but could not locate the new
>>> implementation that is supposed to be for VB.Net.
>>>
>>> Also, in my reading on the Mono website, it says that the Mono basic
>>> (VB.Net) implementation was compiled with VB.Net and I was wondering if the
>>> Mono basic (VB.Net) implementation could be compiled with the latest
>>> pre-compiled Mono basic application?
>>>
>>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards and have a great day,
>>> Lonnie
>>>
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