Hello,
> 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 ?
In the MCS compiler -nostdlib turns on a special mode in which the
compiler is setup for self-hosting. Since the compiler is written in C#
and uses System.Reflection as its core type repository, there a number
of assumptions in the code about the meaning of this flag.
In reality we should three states:
* Normal state.
* Do not load default libraries, I will provide them in the
command line
* Do not load default libraries, and setup for corlib bootstrap
Today -nostdlib stands for (3), while the behavior you want is (2). It
is not very hard to fix, but it is a very low priority for me. If
someone wants to do it, feel free to send a patch.
Miguel
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