I'm trying to distribute a C# program in both binary and source form so that the user can optionally recompile it.
According to http://www.mono-project.com/CSharp_Compiler "You have to pick one of: mcs: compiler to target 1.1 runtime (to be deprecated with Mono 2.8). gmcs: compiler to target the 2.0 runtime. smcs: compiler to target the 2.1 runtime, to build Moonlight applications. dmcs: Starting with Mono 2.6 this command is the C# 4.0 compiler, and references the 4.0 runtime." And indeed on my Ubuntu 10.04 VM, 'gmcs' works but 'mcs' gives an error message. (dmcs would be nice to have, presumably it just hasn't made it through the pipeline yet -- the Ubuntu version of Mono is 2.4.4 -- which is fair enough.) The problem I'm trying to solve is how to write a reliable makefile. I can have the makefile call gmcs, but then presumably this will start failing as soon as dmcs becomes the standard version. Would it be possible to define a command to run whatever the latest/currently installed C# compiler is? It seems to me that command should be mcs, but it doesn't really matter what it is, as long as it works reliably on all systems. _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
