Hi, I agree that it would be an interesting project, but I think it would be of limited value. Here is an example of why: The SWT native DLL exposes a set of functions with JNICALL calling convention, on Windows JNICALL is defined as __stdcall and on Solaris (and presumable Linux as well) as default (i.e. C) calling convention. If I compile my Managed C++ JNI DLL on Windows with Microsofts compiler, the calling convention used for native code will obviously be __stdcall, so this dll will not be usable on Linux, because the Linux SWT native dll exports its functions with the C calling convention (and call the JNI functions with the C calling convention).
Regards, Jeroen > -----Original Message----- > From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 18:54 > To: Jeroen Frijters > Cc: 'Patrick Hartling'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Managed C++ assemblies and Mono > > > Hello, > > > It's unlikely you're going to get this to work. The C++ runtime > > initialization that the Managed C++ compiler links in is > x86 code that > > depends on the Windows API, so it'll be hard to get it to > run on Linux. > > As long as it is only the initialization code, the few > routines that are > used can be faked, so that should be no problem. > > The large body of work though would be to make Mono able to > execute the > native x86 code. It would be an interesting project for someone > interested in this, and many people would appreciate it. > > It is not a priority for us (Ximian) to make this happen at > this point, > as native x86 code is not portable to other systems, so we > rather assume > it is just an Intel hack. > > Miguel > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
