C# DLLs for tests

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 15:14:32 CDT 2018


On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Fabian Maurer <dark.shadow4 at web.de> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
>
> I'm still on tests for mscoree, and for that I need NET dlls to run the
> tests with.
>
> The DLLs can be compile with csc.exe, but that needs to be implemented
> somehow.
>
> Right now there are two ways we could implement that:
>
>
>
> 1) Compile DLL at build time (optional build dependency on mono)
>
> 2) Compile DLL at runtime (wine-mono would need to ship csc.exe, native .NET
> already has it)
>
>
>
> I'm not sure which way is preferred, both would be feasible, I guess.
>
> Which one should I take?

Vincent already suggested option 2
(https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-July/129995.html).
I'm inclined to agree for a few reasons:
A) This avoids a dependency on mono.
B) It gives us a good reason to provide csc.exe, which would allow
wine-mono to more closely match .Net.

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