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I'm playing with a script using Gtk. On my Mono, I see gtk-sharp and glib-sharp in the GAC. However, when I say

fsc -r gtk-sharp.dll

-- I get nothing, neither with -r gtk-sharp (without .dll suffix).

Similarly, in toplevel, I can't do #r "gtk-sharp.dll" -- I have to do, first,

#I "/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.0.1/lib/mono/gtk-sharp-2.0"

-- and then #r "gtk-sharp.dll" works (after #r "glib-sharp.dll").

Setting

export MONO_GAC_PREFIX=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.0.1/lib/mono

prior to launching fsi or fsi doesn't seem to help. So are -r and #r supposed to load from the GAC, and then why don't they load gtk-sharp? Also, what environment variables are read and respected by fsc.exe and fsi.exe, to tell it where to load from once instead of supplying -I at command line?

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For the command-line compiler: You need to use -I to include directories in the assemblies search path. Then you can reference assemblies by just there file name, alternatively you can use the full path. This is fairly standard for .NET compiles.

Before the CTP the toplevel (fsi) had exactly same semantics as the compiler, but now you can reference assemblies in the gac using the "assembly name" (i.e. the thing that inculdes the version key etc.), you can also use the short name which is basically just the filename with out the dll bit. Someone wrote a blog post explaining this, but I can't find it (I think it was Chris Smith or Brian's Inside F#).

Cheers,

Rob

By on 11/19/2008 12:33 AM ()

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