[DotGNU]Poor man's mscoree.dll - working

[Maciek]

Hello,

I started playing with coremul last night and after figuring out how to 
export the DLL function properly i came up with a _very simple_ solution 
to mscoree.dll problem. Here's basically how it works:

pnet/coremul/shim.c:

__declspec(dllexport) __int32 _CorExeMain(void)
{
        /* Get the full pathname of the application */
        #ifdef _COR_REAL_WIN32
                TCHAR path[1024];
                GetModuleFileName(0, path, 1023);

                STARTUPINFO    si;
                PROCESS_INFORMATION  pi;

                GetStartupInfo(&si);

                char cmd[1100];

                sprintf(cmd, "%s \"%s\"", "ilrun", path);

                /* Execute 'ilrun "path/app.exe"' */
                CreateProcess(
                        NULL,
                        cmd,
                        NULL,
                        NULL,
                        FALSE,
                        0,
                        NULL,
                        NULL,
                        &si,
                        &pi);

                exit(0);
        #endif

        return 0;
}

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I've compiled the DLL (on mingw) this way:

cd coremul/
gcc -c cocreate.cpp
gcc -c guid.cpp
gcc -c shim.c
dllwrap --output-lib=libmscoreedll.a --dllname=mscoree.dll 
--driver-name=gcc cocreate.o guid.o shim.o

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As you can see, it's a really half-assed approach (EXEs only), 
completely disregarding the way the 'shim' should work in real life. 
Obviously, this approach only works on Windows, I don't even know if 
mscoree.dll would be useful on other platforms. But it works for simple 
testing, you no longer have to type 'ilrun app.exe' on Windows to 
execute .NET applications.

If you're interested in having this until I come up with a better 
solution, I can submit a patch.

Please let me know what you think about it.

Regards,

Maciek