> Well, I just tried to build the file with gcc and it doesn't seem to > like it, maybe you can find out what exactly is 'wrong'. > > Anyway, I have been looking at mscoree.dll & surrounding some more (also > looking at the dotgnu discussions about this). > > It might be interesting to see if we can the following to work: > > You can have a <yourapp>.exe.config file containing information about > the required Runtime. > Example: > ---- > <configuration> > <startup> > <requiredRuntime version="v1.0.0.1" safemode="true"/> > </startup> > </configuration> > ---- > > Executing an application with this config file will result in the > message "C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.0.1\mscorwks.dll could > not be loaded". > > Now, if you create that dir and put a 'fake' mscorwks.dll (rename the > mscoree.dll build from my sources) in the directory, then everything > works ok again (read: mono is used to execute the .NET application). > > What happens is that Microsofts mscoree.dll will first look at the > .config file. The config file tells it to use the runtime 'v1.0.0.1' > (which doesn't really exists officially, but it's just a way for our > 'runtime' to be used). Next it will load mscorwks.dll and have it > execute the .NET application. > > Now a possible scenario would be to have a mono + a mscorwks.dll > installed in "C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\"<SOME_VERSION>\. > Where SOME_VERSION is a version that is not being used by Microsoft > (else we have a conflict with an installed .NET Framework). >
I knew about this. Somewhere in the registry the directory for this specail version can be set (instead of "C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\" ). The problem here is, that this solution requires the Microsoft mscoree.dll to be installed. > Next step would be to have mcs generate executables that don't need a > .config file to execute through this mechanism (the resulting exe should > probably contain some kind of reference to a 'SOME_VERSION' runtime, so > mscoree will select the correct runtime: mono). That is IMO possible, however I like config-file better, because that way we can also execute MS compiled apps with mono. Maybe we endup, distributing a config file _and_ mscoree.dll. Johannes _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
