Re: [Ikvm-developers] Welcome

[Paolo M. <lu...@xi...>]

On 01/06/03 Pablo Baena wrote:
> I don't know JNI. The compiled ik.vm.jni.dll should run on mono although
> it is written on managed C++. I am making tests already to verify. There

The IK.VM.JNI.dll assembly (at least the one I got a few weeks ago)
contains x86 code. We don't support running x86 code in mono, only IL
(and, besides, we want to support ikvm also on other architectures).
I don't know if it's possible to compile that managed c++ code
completely to IL (I think there's a switch to do that).

> seems to be a few issues because of the lower/upper case of the name of
> assemblies referenced (this is easy to solve). Also,  the
> Microsoft.VisualC.dll is missing on mono (just copying the windows' one
> works by now).

Writing a replacement for Microsoft.VisualC.dll should be easy, it seems
it just contains some attributes...

> Besides of that, a few other problems arise when trying to run the
> binaries. I will be tracking and reporting them on mono's bugzilla.

Thanks.
If the managed c++ code can be compiled to IL code we should be able to
complete the support in mono to run it.
A better solution (since we want to be able to rebuild ikvm in mono as
well and we're not going to support compiling managed c++ any time soon)
is to write a different jni support assembly for mono. This may require
hooks or special handling in the runtime, but I think there should be no
problem in implementing them if it's not possible to implement the
assembly with the standard P/Invoke mechanism.

lupus

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