Re: java -> ikvm -> ilmerge (internalize) -> dll

Just tested things using the -publicpackage modifier and it worked like a
charm! Thank you!

--
Brent Ryan


On 12/22/14, 3:10 AM, "Jeroen Frijters" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Brent,
>
>You should be able to use the ikvmc option -privatepackage:<prefix> to do
>what you want. There is also the -publicpackage:<prefix> option, if you
>only want a specific package to be public. Note that both options can be
>specified multiple times if you want multiple packages to be
>private/public.
>
>Using ILMerge (or really any other assembly post processing tool) with
>IKVM assemblies is not supported.
>
>Regards,
>Jeroen
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ryan, Brent [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 22:08
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Ikvm-developers] java -> ikvm -> ilmerge (internalize) -> dll
>> 
>> One feature of ikvm we'd like to have is the ability to internalize all
>> of the dependencies of the dll we generate via IKVM.  Is this supported
>> or do we still need to put our build process through ILMerge with
>> internalize options to get this?
>> 
>> The main reason we want to do this is that we have 2 or more java
>> projects that we're spitting out IKVM dll files from and each of these
>> DLLs have some of the same/shared dependencies between them, but these
>> dependencies are only used internally to the DLL and not directly by our
>> C# codebase.  In theory, if we could just internalize these dependencies
>> then these conflicts would go away.
>> 
>> Any recommendations on how to best solve this problem?
>> 
>> The options we've come up with so far are: 1) try to extract all of the
>> common stuff into a set of common dll files  2) Try to use extern alias
>> features of C#  3) ILMerge with internalize support.  It seems like
>> option 3 would be the best if it worked.
>> 
>> --
>> Brent Ryan
>> Enterprise Architect
>> skype: brent.ryan
>> mobile: 480.229.1001


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