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0000261mercuryBugpublic2012-07-26 00:382013-01-07 16:48
Reporterpetdr 
Assigned Tojuliensf 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
StatusresolvedResolutionfixed 
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Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000261: building mdbcomp in C# grade attempts to link with non-existant mer_rt.dll
DescriptionAttempting to build the compiler in the csharp grade leads to the following error


Making mer_mdbcomp.dll
** Error making `mer_mdbcomp.dll'.
error CS0006: Metadata file `mer_rt.dll' could not be found
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
make[1]: *** [libmer_mdbcomp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/MISCRITITCOM/petdr/merc/workspaces/1107.csharp/mdbcomp'
make: *** [mdbcomp] Error 2

this is because we are calling the following command

% Invoking system command `dmcs -nowarn:162,219 -define:MR_HIGHLEVEL_DATA -target:library -out:mer_mdbcomp.dll -lib:../boehm_gc -lib:../runtime -lib:../library -lib:../trace -lib:../mdbcomp -lib:../browser -r:mer_std.dll -r:mer_rt.dll Mercury/css/mdbcomp.cs Mercury/css/mer_mdbcomp.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.feedback.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.goal_path.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.prim_data.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.program_representation.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.rtti_access.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.slice_and_dice.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.trace_counts.cs Mercury/css/mdbcomp.feedback.automatic_parallelism.cs'...

juliensf tells me that it goes wrong at around line 223 of Mmake.workspace

My quick solution is to create a dummy mer_rt.dll in the runtime directory, as a workaround.



Steps To Reproduce1. Add GRADE=csharp to Mmake.params
2. GRADE=csharp mmake --use-mmc-make

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(0000477)
juliensf   
2012-07-26 01:13   
Step (2) needs to be mmake --use-mmc-make GRADE=csharp

Adding GRADE=csharp to Mmake.params doesn't work properly since Mmake.workspaces is
included before Mmake.params and the former makes the relevant settings concerning what
libraries mdbcomp is linked against.
(0000486)
juliensf   
2012-12-07 17:14   
I don't think there's much more to be done here. Since compilers built in the non-C grades don't
work terribly well anyway, I don't think there is much to be gained from improving support
for building them. (Supporting four different target languages makes things quite convoluted
anyway.)

I will add sections to README.CSharp, README.Java etc describing how to build the compiler
in the corresponding grades (for those that are interested in such experimentation.)
(0000492)
juliensf   
2013-01-07 16:48   
I have updated the README files for the non-C backends with a description of how to build the compiler.

Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2012-07-26 00:38petdrNew Issue
2012-07-26 01:13juliensfNote Added: 0000477
2012-12-07 17:12juliensfAssigned To => juliensf
2012-12-07 17:12juliensfStatusnew => assigned
2012-12-07 17:14juliensfNote Added: 0000486
2013-01-07 16:48juliensfNote Added: 0000492
2013-01-07 16:48juliensfStatusassigned => resolved
2013-01-07 16:48juliensfResolutionopen => fixed