With the commercial CLR, a managed EXE is treated by Windows as a native-code EXE which has an import to mscoree.dll's CorEXEMain, which is the function that loads the CLR and invokes managed main.
For the SSCLI, we needed a way to bypass Windows attempt to load the managed EXE and the commercial mscoree.dll. That's what clix.exe does on windows: it is a native-code EXE which loads the managed EXE into memory as a blob of data, the loads the SSCLI's sscoree.dll and invokes its CorEXEMain. There is no equivalent of clix.exe for the commercial CLR, since Windows can load the EXE and the CLR directly. On Unix machines, clix is an executable file in whatever format the host OS supports (usually ELF). It is capable of loading the managed EXE even though its format is Windows PE/COFF. Barry This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE DOTNET-ROTOR Memomana Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] CLR vs. SSCLI Hi, >From looking at the Task Manager, I notice that running a HelloWorld program in the commercial CLR > HelloWorld.exe creates one new process (i.e. HelloWorld.exe), whereas running it in the SSCLI >clix HelloWorld.exe creates one process (i.e. clix.exe). For the latter case, why is there only one process (i.e. clix)? Where is the HelloWorld process? Moreover, is there any 'clix'-like command in the commercial CLR to run a process? I mean that something like: > clix-for-the-clr HelloWorld Thank you beforehand. Memomana =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: Guerrilla ASP.NET 15 March 2004, in Boston, MA 17 May 2004 in Torrance, CA 7 June 2004, London, UK http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: Guerrilla ASP.NET 15 March 2004, in Boston, MA 17 May 2004 in Torrance, CA 7 June 2004, London, UK http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
