Feature/add reference

[Vad1mo]

• Allows to pass references to IKVM
• Now it is also possible to download newer (>8.x) IKVM versions which are hosted on the IKVM Authors website http://www.frijters.net

I also added the dependency 'commons-io:commons-io:2.5' without it the project didn't compile.

[gluck]

any reason not to use the supported list of references (through the configuration)? (maybe lack of documentation on how to use it ?) - see getReferences()

[Vad1mo]

I planned to implement the -reference:library-filespec in http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/ikvmc.html

Is it the same as getReferences if yes how do I use it?

What I want is to compile against .NET 2.0
ikvmc ... -reference:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.12.1/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll

[gluck]

today you can add references using a configuration like:

dependencies {
    ikvmCompile group: 'foo', name: 'bar', version: '1.0', type: '.dll'
}

(which will add -reference:PATH_TO/bar.dll to the IKVM command, assuming you have a resolver that'll point towards these)

Where do you need to reference libs from ?

[Vad1mo]

Currently I use this command and the dll I am referencing is mscorelib 2.0

mono ../ikvm-8.1.5717.0/bin/ikvmc.exe \
    -out:/dot.NET-$version.dll \
    -version:$version\
    -fileversion:$version \
    -keyfile:/Users../../key.key \
    -removeassertions -compressresources 
    -target:library \
    -nostdlib \
    -reference:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.12.1/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll \
    /Users/.../myLib-$version.jar

[gluck]

As per https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sub:file_dependencies did you try something like:

dependencies {
    ikvmCompile files('/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.12.1/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll')
}

?

[gluck]

Note that after having merged the support for www.frijters.net, I rollback'ed it because it caused CI build issues (timeouts on the URL).
I think it's safer to avoid the extra lookup, users can specify the beta URL if they want using:

ikvm {
    ikvmHome = "http://www.frijters.net/...."
}

Thx

[Vad1mo]

I wonder how I could resolve this issue after setting

ikvmCompile files('/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.12.1/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll')

is there some sort of exclude in ikvm or the plugin or -nostdlib support

warning IKVMC0127: Assembly
"/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.12.1/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll" 
is ignored as previously loaded assembly
"/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.4.1/lib/mono/4.5/mscorlib.dll" 
has the same identity "mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"

I need to compile against mscorlib 2.0 because the dll will be used with an .NET 2.0 application. It seems Its not possible to create a 2.0 compatible version with a 4.5 corlib.

[Vad1mo]

@gluck I still have an issue as the mscorlib.dll is added twice.