To be more precise: %SYSTEMROOT%\assembly\GAC\<namespace>\<version>_<culture>_<publickeytoken>.
where SYSTEMROOT can be taken from environment variable. There's also some API to get it, but I don't remember it right now. Jarek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fergus Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mercury on Mono (not successful) > On 27-Feb-2003, Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/27/03 Fergus Henderson wrote: > > > The first one is that Mono doesn't search the GAC. > > > OK, that one is easy to work around; just add the appropriate > > > directory to the PATH. > > > > Is there a windows developer here? I someone can provide the code > > that returns the path to the GAC, I'll add it to the default search path > > when running in windows. > > On my system it is in C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC, with each assembly under > C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC\<namespace>\<version>__<publickeytoken>. > > > There are still two issues: > > 1) in the files you provided a type is referenced, but I could not find > > it defined in any module: > > [mercury]mercury.private_builtin.ref_1 > > I guess a file is missing from the tarball. > > No, that type is indeed referenced but not defined. This is a currently > not-yet-implemented part of the Mercury standard library. I hadn't noticed > that until now, because it works in Microsoft.NET. It works because > that type is never actually used at run-time. Not sure what the ECMA > standard says about this, but in any case I can fix our source to > define that type. > > > 2) references to nested types are encoded with (for example): > > namespace = mercury.list > > name = list_1/[|]_2 > > I always thought that was not allowed and that you should use a typeref > > to the parent with: > > namespace = mercury.list > > name = list_1 > > and a typeref to the typeref with: > > namespace = > > name = [|]_2 > > Well, we just spit out IL assembler and let ilasm.exe handle it. > We generate the name 'mercury'.'list'.'list_1'/'[|]_2', which I > believe is correct according to the ECMA spec. > > > I guess we'll have to handle also this special case. > > That would be good. > > -- > Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit > The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" > WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
