Guenther Roith wrote:
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'.I'm using cygwin/mingw, but haven't yet tried to build it. I'll do this afternoon.
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:
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<configuration>
<startup>
<requiredRuntime version="v1.0.0.1" safemode="true"/>
</startup>
</configuration>
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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).
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).
I don't know what other things might be needed to get this fully working (example: registry settings?)
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Jeroen
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