Re: [Ikvm-developers] Evading NoClassDefFoundError

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Andr=E9s G. Aragoneses [ knocte ] wrote:
> Jeroen Frijters escribi=F3:
> > Andr=E9s G. Aragoneses [ knocte ] wrote:
> >> I guess Jose Ramon is not asking for IKVM to generate stub classes
> or
> >> API-compliant (but empty implementation) references but, could IKVM
> >> generate an IL identical as if the reference was found (of course,
> if
> >> someone runs that IL, it will crash, but the purpose of this
> >> incomplete IL is to be analyzed, not to be run).
> >
> > AFAIK that's not possible with Reflection.Emit.
>
> Can it be done by Cecil? I see that I can examine an .exe with Cecil
> even if it depends on some dll files that are not found.

Yes, but it stil wouldn't make sense for IKVM.

> >> Then, could it be possible for ikvm to have that option? If yes, it
> >> would be great if you could give us some hints for contributing it.
> >
> > I don't see what advantage that would offer to IKVM.
>
> Performance? No need to parse the references in case we already have
> converted them to IL before.

You need to know in which assembly a type lives, you can't just go make up =
random assembly identities. Unlike Java, where a class name is all you need=
, in .NET a type's identity consists of its name and the assembly identity.

Regards,
Jeroen