mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kornél Pál <kornelpal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently it's very unlikely that Mono will have it's own MSVCRTs (I mean
> > mixed-mode versions) in the near future. Do you know whether they are
> > redistributable?
>
> Yes, but the license is restrictive, and you can't redistribute them
> with wine or mono,
> only with applications.  When running apps that forgot to bundle them,
> I often use this script to download them from microsoft:
> http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
>
> But Wine has its own increasingly useful implementation of msvcrt,
> at least the part that uses the C api.  (The C++ api is difficult for us
> because it has to be written in C; g++ uses a different ABI than Microsoft
> C++.)

The GCC people might be working on that, e.g. to enable free software library 
developers on Windows to use their tool chain for providing binary packages.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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