[MonoDevelop] Can I use the Microsoft compilers withMonodevelop 2.2b2 on Windows?
Charlie Poole
charlie at nunit.com
Fri Oct 30 19:11:32 EDT 2009
Hi Olivier,
> > Of course they don't...
> >
> > Next question: would it be a good thing for developers if they did?
> >
> > Charlie
>
> You may not be able to _easily_ switch between the Microsoft
> C# compiler and the Mono C# compiler, but you _can_ create
> your own .targets file (or inline the content inside your
> .csproj file) that overrides the CoreCompile target in
> Microsoft.CSharp.targets and calls whatever task you wish to
> (including a hypothetical mcs task). The former is pretty
> much what the Grasshopper C#-to-JVM bytecode "compiler" does.
> Come to think of it, I seem to recall someone creating such
> an "mcs" MSBuild task. Google is your friend.
>
> The Visual Studio IDE itself might still use some Microsoft
> compiler components for the auto-complete, refactoring,
> syntax highlighting or error underlining, but that doesn't
> mean you are stuck generating your binaries with the same compiler...
Interesting... this is not something I've looked into much but now
that you mention it I recall some such thing as well.
However, I was mainly replying to Ozgur's apparent dismissal of
the OP's question. I don't want to just dismiss it - it led me
to realize that an easily interchangeable back end would be a good
feature in an IDE, something I'd not thought of before.
Charlie
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