Re: Poor man's mscoree.dll - working

OK, here's the whole thing (mscoree.dll, source and MSVC7.1 project): 
http://mil-sim.net/download/pnet/coremul.zip

If you have a system without MS.NET, copy the DLL to C:\Program 
Files\PNET\bin (it should be in PATH).

Maciek wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I started playing with coremul last night and after figuring out how to 
> export the DLL function properly i came up with a _very simple_ solution 
> to mscoree.dll problem. Here's basically how it works:
> 
> pnet/coremul/shim.c:
> 
> __declspec(dllexport) __int32 _CorExeMain(void)
> {
>     /* Get the full pathname of the application */
>     #ifdef _COR_REAL_WIN32
>         TCHAR path[1024];
>         GetModuleFileName(0, path, 1023);
> 
>         STARTUPINFO    si;
>         PROCESS_INFORMATION  pi;
> 
>         GetStartupInfo(&si);
> 
>         char cmd[1100];
> 
>         sprintf(cmd, "%s \"%s\"", "ilrun", path);
> 
>         /* Execute 'ilrun "path/app.exe"' */
>         CreateProcess(
>             NULL,
>             cmd,
>             NULL,
>             NULL,
>             FALSE,
>             0,
>             NULL,
>             NULL,
>             &si,
>             &pi);
> 
>         exit(0);
>     #endif
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> ---
> 
> I've compiled the DLL (on mingw) this way:
> 
> cd coremul/
> gcc -c cocreate.cpp
> gcc -c guid.cpp
> gcc -c shim.c
> dllwrap --output-lib=libmscoreedll.a --dllname=mscoree.dll 
> --driver-name=gcc cocreate.o guid.o shim.o
> 
> ---
> 
> As you can see, it's a really half-assed approach (EXEs only), 
> completely disregarding the way the 'shim' should work in real life. 
> Obviously, this approach only works on Windows, I don't even know if 
> mscoree.dll would be useful on other platforms. But it works for simple 
> testing, you no longer have to type 'ilrun app.exe' on Windows to 
> execute .NET applications.
> 
> If you're interested in having this until I come up with a better 
> solution, I can submit a patch.
> 
> Please let me know what you think about it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maciek
> 
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