Hi,
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes:
* Raja R Harinath wrote on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:13:15PM CEST:
I'm attaching a series of patches adding support for Mono/.NET/ECMA-335
(also called the CLI, common language infrastructure).
I'm working on documenting the support, but the testcases show example
usage.
Thank you very much for your patches, esp. all the nice test examples.
Thanks (and sorry about the multiple e-mails. I had a lot of trouble getting
e-mail out from my laptop, and ended up sending multiple copies).
I have completed more of the work, and you can find some more information at:
http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/better-automake-support-for-mono
I've a more complete patchset available at:
http://blog.hurrynot.org/mono-in-automake/patches
and a sample tarball at:
http://blog.hurrynot.org/mono-in-automake/test-1.0.tar.gz
(I don't want to e-mail the new patches since I had so much trouble last time).
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to CLI, so is there a website or
manuals for me to get a jump start on things (notation, compilers and
options, file types)?
Hmm... Not in one place, unfortunately :-) There is some information on
Microsoft's .NET site -- the following may be a starting point
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78f4aasd(VS.80).aspx
There is probably also some information on mono-project.com
http://mono-project.com/Monkeyguide
http://mono-project.com/Introduction_to_developing_with_Mono
Is the intention to support both the Mono as well as the w32 suite
Yes.
(are there more)?
Yes. There's the DotGNU/Portable.NET project. I'm not familiar with this
project, but expect that the specifics of invocation of compilers, the
extensions of output files, etc., are the same.
On which systems (all unixoids plus w32)?
However, the current patch only works with Mono (either on unixoid, or on w32).
Microsoft's compilers don't like seeing '/' in filenames, and I thought it would
be too much of a diversion trying ot detect and convert '/'es to '\'es. That's
a patch for another day :-)
Those extensions really are .exe and .dll everywhere, not only on w32?
Yes. CLI binaries are akin to Java .jar files, and contain a lot of similar
metadata. The code is not native code, but a bytecode called the CIL (common
intermediate language). However, they are named with .exe and .dll since they
contain enough of the MZ/PE headers to invoke the .NET Jit on w32.
On Unixoid machines, they are explicitly invoked with the Mono jit:
mono foo.exe
- Hari
