.NET to X86

[Beer]

I've heard about a sourceforge project that compiles either .NET source or MSIL to X86. Does anybody have a web link to this project? hey

[Lost User]

What OS ? If it is Linux, then the Mono project at http://www.go-mono.com/[^] Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

[Erik Funkenbusch]

I doubt it's what you think it is. Even Microsoft ships such a tool, but it still requires the .NET framework installed on the machine to run. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?

[Anders Molin]

Mono is .NET for Linux, the original poster (forgot his name and can't see it on this page ;) ) talked about something that could compile .NET code into native Windows code ;) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

[Kannan Kalyanaraman]

Have you looked into ngen. The framework ships this tool, which is a native image generator. But the resulting assembly still requires the runtime, except that when they are loaded they can start execution without JITing(somebody correct me if i'm wrong). Cheers Kannan

[Beer]

Ha, you're not the guy that made C# are you Anders? LOL, OK, Yes, you are correct, I am looking for a .NET to X86 compiler for either C# or MSIL. Either way if the .NET framework is still needed to run an executable image of the X86 code, then it's useless. Hehe. I have gotten word tonight that this project is in the works. I have no idea how they are going to get .NET code to work without the framework, perhaps it converts it to C or C++ first then compiles, or perhaps it compiles directly from assembler. At any rate, I feel sorry for the poor schmo that is working on it. It seems like it will be one heck of a job converting code on the fly to emulate .NET for framework-less(if that can be said) X86. I've heard that a company is working on this, but I'm still looking for an open source, source forge version or some other open project dealing with this, so if anybody has any info in the way of that, please let me know. :) hey