[MonoDevelop] Can I use the Microsoft compilers withMonodevelop 2.2b2 on Windows?

[Bojan Rajkovic]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Ian Norton-Badrul <
Ian.Norton-Badrul at thales-esecurity.com> wrote:

> Make a copy of csc.exe called gmcs.exe? Or whatever the ms compiler is
> called
>
> Ian
>
>
> On 31 Oct 2009, at 10:11, "Ozgur Akgun" <ozgurakgun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And excuse me for throwing that question early in the discussion. I agree
> that that resulted slightly in a dismissal of the real question.
>
> So is there any was to *force* MonoDevelop use MS compiler?
>
> 2009/10/30 Charlie Poole < <charlie at nunit.com>charlie at nunit.com>
>
>> 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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Hi y'all,

As far as I'm aware, MonoDevelop on Windows uses the .NET compilers for
everything, or at least it should, unless you tell it to run on top of Mono.
If it doesn't, that's probably a bug, and should be reported as such.

Richard, to settle your mind, the C# compiler fully supports all of C# up to
and including 3.5. I can't speak to the state of the VB compiler, but I
don't believe it's as good.

B.R.
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