Re: [DotGNU]Portable.NET 0.5.4 released

[Robert Johnson]

Rhys,

I have created a readme file for the windows
distribution. when you get a chance take a look at it
and let me know if it looks ok. I want to include it
in the installer I'm creating. Here is what it would
look like:

-----------------------------------------------------

Portable.NET
------------

The goal of this project is to build a suite of Free
Software tools
to build and execute .NET applications, including a C#
compiler,
assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine. 

The product is available under the terms of the GNU
General Public
License.  The latest version of the product can be
downloaded
from the following Web site:

    http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html
    
    or
    
    http://www.dotgnu.org/downloads.html


PNET Environment Variables
--------------------------

Once you have installed PNET make sure to set your
windows environment variables as follows:


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Windows NT/2000/XP : Go to the "Systems Properties"
window and click the "Environment Variables" 

button. In the System variables window select the
"Path" variable and append to the end the 

location of where you installed PNET. Also make sure
to include the Library Path (<Install 

directory>\Pnet\lib\cscc\lib)

Complete Example: (C:\Program Files\Common 

Files\Macafe\;C:\PNET\bin;C:\TREECC\bin;C:\PNET\lib\cscc\lib)
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Windows 98/ME : go to (start -> run) then in the run
box type "sysedit". The system edit windows 

will be displayed. Look for the window "AUTOEXEC.BAT"
window. Apend to the end of the "path" 

variable the PNET Install Directory as well as the
library directory.

Example:
(Path=C:\windows;C:\PNET\bin;C:\TREECC\bin;C:\PNET\lib\cscc\lib)

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Also I have built the Version 0.5.3 of PNET and 0.2.3
of treecc. Can I get PNET 0.5.3 & treecc from the cvs
or should I download and build the copy you have
posted on sothern-storm.com ?


Bob J

--- Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden> wrote:
> New versions of pnet, pnetlib, pnetC, and treecc
> have been released:
> 
> Web Page:
> http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html
> Download:
>
http://www.southern-storm.com.au/download/pnet-0.5.4.tar.gz
> Library: 
>
http://www.southern-storm.com.au/download/pnetlib-0.5.4.tar.gz
> pnetC:   
>
http://www.southern-storm.com.au/download/pnetC-0.5.4.tar.gz
> Treecc:  
>
http://www.southern-storm.com.au/download/treecc-0.2.4.tar.gz
> 
> Lots of things happening this time around.  See the
> NEWS files for
> the full info.  The signed MD5 sums are attached to
> this message.
> My key can be found at
> "http://www.dotgnu.org/pubkeys.html";.
> 
> The high points are the beginnings of support for
> Generic IL and
> Reflection.Emit, with lots of little bug fixes here
> and there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rhys.
> 
> 0.5.4 (29 March 2003)
> 
> Runtime engine:
> 
> * Support for custom marshalling.
> * DirMethods.CreateDirectory internalcall (Aditya P.
> Bansod).
> * Bug in decimal division (Jonathan Springer).
> * Fix the unpacking of enumerated values in
> internalcalls.
> * Re-design method profiling (CH Gowri Kumar).
> * Inline StringBuilder.Append(char) and
> Char.IsWhiteSpace(char)
>   because they are heavily used in text processing
> code.
> * Modify inline method detection logic to use a
> table.
> * Box and unbox "float" and "double" correctly.
> * Handle typed references for "dup" and "pop".
> * Stub out internalcalls for
> "System.Reflection.Emit".
> 
> C# Compiler:
> 
> * Pipe the output of "cscc-cs" and "cscc-c-s"
> directly into the
>   assembler, to reduce the need for temporary files.
> * Add the "-fminimize-parameters" option to the
> compiler, which
>   removes ParamDef blocks that are set to trivial
> values and hence
>   reduces the runtime memory requirements.
> * Re-order static constructors so that explicit
> definitions are
>   placed last (Gopal V).
> * Performance improvements to the lexer.
> * Marshalling information for delegate parameters.
> * Parser support for Generic C# (no semantic
> analysis yet).
> * Generate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke declarations on
> delegates.
> * Detect nested namespaces that aren't defined by
> "using" clauses.
> * Enforce abstract class and method restrictions.
> * Don't allow aliases to refer to other aliases.
> * Fix operator resolution involving implicit int ->
> uint coercions.
> * Pointer coercions, casts, arithmetic, and array
> operations.
> * Resolve ambiguities between types and properties
> with the same name.
> * Fix ambiguity problems related to finding the same
> method along
>   multiple interface inheritance paths.
> * Support interface implementations from parent
> classes.
> * Quietly skip documentation comments in attribute
> lists.
> * Improved error reporting for field declarations
> (Gopal V).
> * Read-only variables can be assigned in
> psuedo-constructors (Gopal V).
> 
> C Compiler:
> 
> * ECMA-compatibility fixes to the struct output
> routines.
> * Better name generation for anonymous structs and
> unions.
> * Allow struct's with no fields.
> 
> Assembler, Disassembler & Linker:
> 
> * Support for Generic IL extensions.
> * Handle object files generated by Visual C++ a
> little better.
> * Custom attribute owner syntax.
> * Compatibility fixes in the IL assembly support
> code.
> * Dump odd identifier characters in octal, not hex.
> * Use left-recursion to parse ".data" declarations
> (Gopal V).
> * Column numbers in ".line" directives.
> 
> Documentation:
> 
> * Dump attribute and event information from "csdoc".
> 
> Loader and Metadata:
> 
> * Smooth out the overhead of back-patching to
> improve performance
>   of NFS-mounted C# compiles.
> * Load minor tables such as Constant, FieldRVA, etc
> on-demand.
> * Performance and data structure improvements.
> * Support for Generic IL extensions.
> * Improvements to error messages for unresolved
> externals.
> * Report all metadata token errors; not just the
> first one.
> * Support for export type definitions.
> * Shift the name information out of ILClass to
> support on-demand loading.
> * Recognize ".data" as a static data section in
> addition to ".sdata".
> * Loading images from memory buffers instead of
> files.
> 
> Platform Support:
> 
> * Updates to libffi for ppc.
> * Primitives for monitor operations.
> * Remove script dependency on /tmp because it
> creates Win32 problems.
> * Other Darwin-related fixes (Jonathan Springer).
> * Directory routines for Win32 (Tobias Oberstein).
> 
> Csant:
> 
> * Handle ".." references in file sets properly.
> * Base directory fixes for some tags.
> * Mono-compatibility fixes.
> * Dynamic library support for Win32 (Aditya P.
> Bansod).
> * Mixed-endian "double" support for ARM processors.
> 
> Other:
> 
> * Begin implementation of a "mscoree" emulation.
> * More detailed reporting in "ilsize".
> * Debian compatibility fixes (Stephen Compall).
> 
> 0.5.4 (29 March 2003)
> 
> * Stub out System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore (Gopal V).
> * Use "" for the invariant culture name instead of
> "iv" in some areas.
> * Null string fix for Console.WriteLine (Marcus
> Urban).
> * Null name handling in NameValueCollection (Marcus
> Urban).
> * DayOfWeek fixes (Yannis BRES).
> * Various ECMA-compatibility mode fixes.
> * Fixes to "Directory" and "Process" (Yannis BRES).
> * Re-sync regular expression code with Mono (Gopal
> V).
> * Type.FindMembers (Gopal V).
> * Make the inheritance of SocketException variable
> for ECMA (Gopal V).
> * Stub out some threading classes (Gopal V).
> * Continue System.Xml implementation (Adam Ballai).
> * Directory.CreateDirectory (Aditya P. Bansod).
> * Extra methods for supporting generic types.
> * Collection bug fixes.
> * Parsing comma-separated enumerated values.
> * "==" and "!=" operators for "Version" (Yannis
> BRES).
> * Begin implementing a generic collections class
> library.
> * Endian issues in IPAddress test cases (Jonathan
> Springer).
> * Performance improvements to StringBuilder,
> XmlTextReader, I18N.
> * Implement most of System.Reflection.Emit (Gopal V,
> Rhys Weatherley).
> * Fix to NodeList iterator that was skipping the
> first child.
> * Byte order mark detection in UnicodeEncoding.
> * Add UCS-4 handler to System.Xml.
> * Continue implementing JScript.
> 
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Robert Johnson
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Telephone:  609-748-9272 (home)
Email: address@hidden

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