[MonoDevelop] Alternate location for mscorlib & gac dlls for stripped down mono.

[Abe Gillespie]

This might be only for binary-type libraries, but perhaps remapping
them would work?

http://www.mono-project.com/DllNotFoundException

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Doug Blank <doug.blank at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Emile Bosch <mielzpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> For my quest to build an embedded mono/node equivalent using kqueue. (Im on
>> mountain lion osx) I have now stripped down mono to 12.4 MB. With MCS and
>> mono.
>> I want to be able to get rid of the GAC. I want to be able to place
>> mscorlib, system, system.core, system.xml etc.  In the same directory as my
>> other bin files. Or even specify in the end a alternate directory such as
>> modules in the end which can be installed using a package manager.
>>
>> However, mono keeps demanding i place these files in the GAC directory, and
>> the mscorlib in the mono/4.5 directory. Placing the dll's next to the mono
>> exe doesn't matter, it keeps nagging it's not in the right directory. Does
>> anyone know how to solve this problem?
>>
>> PS. My endgoal is to embed. System, mscorlib all in one c app using the mono
>> embedded strategy using kqueue for event polling in such creating a semi
>> .net node eqv.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emile
>
> I believe that this is called "making a package relocatable" and Mono
> does not support this on a Mac (Windows does, and can be "xcopied").
> It could be that if you change all of the hardcoded paths in the Mono
> Framework subdirectories, you could make this work (and I would be
> very interested in this too).
>
> See related question here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12145204/mono-install-on-windows-mac
>
> If you find a solution, please let us know.
>
> -Doug
>
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