[m-rev.] for review: autoconfigure which version of .NET std lib to use

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Mar-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:26:41PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > 
> I have gone the other way since we are specifically examining
> mscorlib.dll which is *only* distributed with the MS version.  It is
> called corlib.dll on Mono, I believe.

It is called mscorlib.dll on Portable.NET.

And even on Mono, LoadAssembly("mscorlib") might end up loading corlib.dll
(I'm not sure whether it does, but probably it should).

> Note that in the long run, the
> compiler should be a native il executable and will be able to use
> System.Reflection to find this information, so this option should only
> be needed until we bootstrap the compiler.

You must be talking about the very, very, very, very long run.

Even then, I would want to continue to support cross-compiling from
non-IL-grade version of the Mercury compiler, or using an IL-grade
Mercury compiler built with one version of the IL libraries to
compile programs that will be linked with a different version of
the IL libraries.

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