It creates IL you can then read that IL with cecil :)

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Michael DeMond <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could... but I would still have to convert it back to Cecil constructs,
> correct?  Seems like a lot of work... might as well just learn IL. :P
>
> On Thursday, November 27, 2014 10:46:30 AM UTC-5, Greg Young wrote:
>>
>> Have you looked at scriptcs or roslyn? I don't remember if roslyn is
>> pcl compatible
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael DeMond <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to get away with not learning IL... that's what. ;)
>> >
>> > And yes, I realize that T4 doesn't have much in common w/ Cecil, but I
>> > find
>> > it very difficult to work with.
>> >
>> > I'm basically building a Xamarin.Forms framework, and unfortunately, iOS
>> > does not support dynamic code, so all code must be compiled
>> > ahead-of-time.
>> > My framework involves Unity Interception and Policy Injection and I want
>> > to
>> > port that over to Xamarin.Forms (PCLs), so that will involve using Cecil
>> > to
>> > rewrite assemblies after they are compiled.  I'm looking at both Fody
>> > and
>> > FluentIL to do this. FluentIL does have a parsing mechanism, but it is
>> > not
>> > robust (still very impressive though!).
>> >
>> > Thanks for replying... on Thanksgiving no less.  Enjoy the turkey. :D
>> >
>> > On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:38:16 AM UTC-5, Jb Evain wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Michael,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the kind words!
>> >>
>> >> I don't think there's anything like that around. It would involve a C#
>> >> REPL like compiler (Mono has one, Roslyn has one) that doesn't emit
>> >> assemblies in memory, and analyzing the result.
>> >>
>> >> The real question is why would you want that? Cecil and T4 don't have
>> >> much in common : what are you trying to achieve?
>> >>
>> >> Jb
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Michael DeMond <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hello Community,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am looking into Cecil... tremendous project, I must say first off.
>> >> > I
>> >> > am
>> >> > curious if there is a way to take a given string and parse it into an
>> >> > Cecil
>> >> > entity definition.  For instance, something like:
>> >> >
>> >> > var data = "void Add( int a, int b ) { return a + b; }";
>> >> > MethodDefinition definition = SomeAwesomeExpressionParserClass.Parse(
>> >> > data
>> >> > );
>> >> >
>> >> > This would be extremely useful and would possibly eliminate any sort
>> >> > of
>> >> > dependency on T4 (I have found this very clunky and Cecil seems like
>> >> > a
>> >> > MUCH
>> >> > better alternative!)
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for any assistance you can provide,
>> >> > Michael
>> >> >
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