Re: FW: [DotGNU]The Mingw32 ilrun seems to run

[James Michael DuPont]

--- Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden> wrote:
> James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> > Simon and I had a long discussion about how to associate the IL exe
> to
> > the pnet runtime. I was thinking about a exe stub that chooses the
> > runtime from the registry, what do you think?
> 
> The ECMA spec says that IL exe's make a call to "_CorExeMain" in
> "mscoree.dll" to auto-launch the CLR.  That's how the MS CLR
> is launched.
> 
> It would theoretically be possible to provide a dummy dll with
> the same name that immediately does the Windows equivalent of
> "exec" to launch "ilrun".  But you'd have to be careful about
> conflicts with an existing MS CLR installation on the system.

OK, that is great. Then we get back to the idea of handlers for your 
executables. If we can provide a chain of handlers. At least some form
of ini file that says 

1. if the exe is in this list use this runtime otherwise goto next
and at the end, use the microsoft default.

I will leave this up to you for now, we have alot of porting and
testing to do.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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