Isn't it you deciding what platform your source targets? That is also the decision of compiler. Once you get to use eg C#4 features, you want dmcs to be the compiler. -- Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Russell Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list >
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