Re: Mono executables

dries <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting Rex Dieter <[email protected]>:

> Dean Takemori wrote:
> 
> > ~ > rpm -ql mono-core | grep bin
> 
> > ~ > file /usr/bin/sn.exe
> > /usr/bin/sn.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console
> executable
> 
> > Is there a reason why the mono-core rpm installs the Windows
> executables
> > into /usr/bin?  
> 
> Probably a packaging bug/oversight, unless mono includes some funky 
> cross-compiling/running feature... (-:

You can run them directly from the commandline if you add this binary
format somewhere in proc. The same can be done with wine. That running
feature is available in the kernel as 'binfmt_misc' or something like
that. You can find more information at
http://www.mono-project.com/Guide:Running_Mono_Applications

kind regards,
Dries
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