Why IKVM.NET reports types as missing when java does not?

Greetings,
I'm not sure if the subject is clear enough. When I use ikvmc.exe on a set
of jars, I get a bunch class not found exceptions. As Jeroen points out in
this stackoverflow answer, this is not always a problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5256658/warning-in-converting-jar-file-into-dll-using-ikvm


What I'm curious about is: when a jar file I'm using is added to a java
project, the java development environments I'm using give me no errors
about missing types. When the same jar is fed to ikvmc.exe, I get the class
not found errors. If my own java code is referring to a type that is not
there, the java compiler(IDEs) catch it.

So how does ikvmc.exe traverse type dependencies? It is clearly different
than the java compiler, since ikvmc.exe complains about missing types which
are not reported as missing by the java compiler.

The reason I'm asking this is, I know for a fact that the jars I'm using
can be used standalone in a java project, but ikvmc reports missing types.
So can I assume that despite these warnings, .NET dlls generated from the
jars would always work? (since they're guaranteed to work standalone under
java?)

Regards
Seref

ps: IKVM is  one of my favourite tools; I do hope it gets support from the
recent open source .NET activities of Microsoft.

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