[rdnzl-devel] Re: RDNZL and Mono

[Goffioul Michael]

> > Do you think it is doable? Or is the package too Windows specific.
> 
> The main point of the DLL which is delivered with RDNZL and 
> which is kind of a bridge between Lisp and .NET is the fact 
> that it mixes what Microsoft calls "managed" and "unmanaged" 
> code.  Roughly, from the Lisp side it looks like plain old C 
> code, and from the .NET side it looks like, well, .NET code.
> 
> AFAIU (but I'm not 100% sure), this can only be done with Microsoft's
> C++, and not, e.g., with their C# or one of their other .NET
> languages.  There's surely /some/ way to do that with Mono 
> because Mono is open source and you'll be able to tweak it 
> somehow.  However, I have no idea how to do that (and no time 
> to do it as well).

Just wait a couple of months, I'm sure some GCC solution will
popup :-) (apparently, there were some efforts in that direction
in the context of Google SoC).

Michael.