Re: mcs vs gmcs

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jo Shields<directhex@apebox.org> wrote:
> Bojan Rajkovic wrote:
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>>  Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>  Which compiler should I be using in a package ? I cannot find any
>>>
>>
>> policy in:
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>>> http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-build-deps
>>>
>>>  Is this better for now to build the *.dll file using mcs (mono 1.0) ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>> mcs is for C# 1.0 and 1.1, gmcs is for C# 2.0 and 3.0. If you're using
>> any newer features, you'll need to use gmcs. So, the correct answer
>> is, it depends on your code. :)
>>
>
> We have deprecated support for 1.0 entirely, so only 2.0-based building is
> allowed. You should build-depend on "mono-devel" which will pull in the
> compiler, and force your build system to use "csc" as a compiler (which
> points to our current default compiler version)
>

Is this documented somewhere, I'd like to open a bug against gdcm and
link to that documentation.

thanks,
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Mathieu