Hi Jon, What you're actually saying is that it's not possible to use Mcs.exe on Windows to compile an assembly using the Mono system assemblies, without running it using the Mono runtime.
I was hoping I could use the -nostblib option to force Mcs not to load the MS.NET corlib. But I guess it's not possible, right ? Gert ----- Original Message ----- From: "jopryor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mono-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: RE: [Mono-list] effect of -nostdlib option > -nostdlib does two things. It keeps corlib.dll from being loaded by default. > > The second thing is what's causing you problems. -nostdlib tells mcs to grab > all types from the files it's compiling. This includes the base types, such > as System.Object (which you were getting errors about). > > The only reason to use -nostdlib is when compiling corlib itself, which should > use the types defined in corlib, *not* types definied in the previous version > of corlib. > > You shouldn't need -nostdlib. It's "for internal use only." ;-) > > - Jon > > >===== Original Message From Gert Driesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== > >Hi, > > > >Can anyone explain what the effect of specifying the -nostdlib option is for > the Mcs (using the Mono runtime or the .NET runtime) ? > > > >For the MS.NET compiler it allows you to specify another mscorlib.dll that > should be linked instead of the .NET Framework mscorlib.dll. > > > >But for Mcs this does not seems to work : when you want to build an assembly > using the Mono runtime you must use "mono mcs.exe [options]" although in my > opinion should be able to build an assembly using the Mono system assemblies > by using the following commandline : > > > >mcs.exe -target:library -nostdlib -noconfig -out:log4net.dll -r:corlib.dll > -r:System.dll -r:System.Xml.dll -r:System.Web.dll -recurse:*.cs > > > >But apparently it does not seems to link to the corlib.dll again, because I > get the following compile errors : > > > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Object' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.ValueType' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Attribute' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.IComparable' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.ICloneable' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.IConvertible' is not defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.IEnumerable' is not > defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.ICollection' is not > defined > >error CS0518: The predefined type `System.Collections.IEnumerator' is not > defined > >...... > > > >Can anyone explain what the -nostdlib option is for then, and how I can > compile compile an assembly with the Mono system assemblies without using > Mono.exe Mcs.exe ? > > > >Gert > > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
