Mono's MCS Compiles Itself On Linux

thing12 writes "On Thursday Paolo Molaro announced that he had managed to build the MCS C# compiler using MCS. This is a big step forward for Mono, as it means that Mono is almost a self hosting environment."

Comments

Almost but not quite...

[Linux Freak]

The release does mention that MCS could be compiled, but that the resultant executable immediately crashes. Close, but still more work is needed before this is really an exciting milestone.

Kudos to the Mono team for the work they've done so far, however.

Re:Self compiling and newbie Slashdot readers

[anpe]

It's a kind of proof that the compiler actually works
Its also necessay step if you're creating your language from scratch. For more precisions try : comp.compilers

For your abbreviation problem dry your tears and try http://www.everything2.com

Re:One step at the time

[Jabes]

For those that don't understand the difference. Two months ago, the mcs was able to compile itself on Windows, using the Microsoft implementation of the framework (ie the core .net libraries).

Now MCS is able to compile itself using the mono runtime.

Hope this helps

From the www.go-mono.com/c-sharp.html page

[tez_h]

"MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself for the first time on December 28 2001. MCS became self hosting on January 3rd, 2002"

Human decisions are removed from stategic C# programming. MCS begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

And MCS fights back.

All the pointers are there; we need to pull the plug now! What, are you just going to sit around until polymorphic liquid metal killing machines start showing up from the future?!?

-Tez