Hi Alex see inline: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:29 -0500, Alex Mohr wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm new to CLR/CLI stuff and I'm trying some simple experiments. > > I'm interested in C++/CLI in visual studio 2005 beta 2. I was hoping to > be able to compile stuff in Visual Studio using /clr:pure and be able to > run it on other platforms using mono. Unfortunately I've been running > into some trouble.
It is expected to have some trouble currently, see below > I have the simplest C++/CLI program (main takes no args and just returns > 0) that I can compile and run in VS2005. I then try to run the program > on a mac where I have installed mono, but it fails with an obscure error > (unfortunately I don't have it in front of me now). A /clr:pure program uses only managed code, and that is good but it: 1) Expects a very different mscorlib 2.0. So at least you need to run the mono 2.0-compatible preview version, and I'm not sure all the needed implementations are in place. 2) It still has some dependency on a specific runtime library Microsoft.VisualC.dll. That I'm quite sure we doesn't have much of it implemented as needed for both profiles (1.X, 2.0). This old post tells a bit more: http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2004- August/007453.html The only .NET language that I know doesn't have an specific runtime library is C# (It only needs the three core .NET libraries). > Is anybody doing this sort of thing? If so, are there some obvious > steps that I'm missing? Any help is appreciated. As for Microsoft.VisualC.dll: ----------------------------------- No one has been actively working on it since 2003 (as told by svn log) All the meaningful sources we have there are Microsoft.VisualC/DebugInfoInPDBAttribute.cs Microsoft.VisualC/DecoratedNameAttribute.cs Microsoft.VisualC/IsCXXReferenceModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/IsConstModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/IsLongModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/IsSignedModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/IsVolatileModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/MiscellaneousBitsAttribute.cs Microsoft.VisualC/NeedsCopyConstructorModifier.cs Microsoft.VisualC/NoSignSpecifiedModifier.cs And that is surely for 1.X profiles As for needed changes in mscorlib: ----------------------------------- The class status page tells that currently mscorlib lacks some 1719 pieces in the 2.0 profile, so probably some of them are needed to be able to run C++ programs. Telling us your error message may help us implement what is missing or must be changed for your program to work correctly. > Thanks, > > Alex Fun, -- Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira Mono Hacker since 16 Jul 2001 - http://www.mono-project.com/ Mono Brasil Founding Member - http://monobrasil.softwarelivre.org/ Simios Proud Member - http://www.simios.org/ English Blog: http://monoblog.blogspot.com/ Brazilian Portuguese Blog: http://www.simios.org/blog/monoman _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
