I've now enabled "multi target" support. This means that you can compile multiple assemblies at once. One of the advantages this has is that it makes dealing with circular dependencies much easier, but even if there aren't any circular dependencies, it can make building much easier because you don't have to do any dependency analysis.

As an example I compiled the jars from the JBoss lib directory:

ikvmc -target:library { commons-codec.jar } { commons-httpclient.jar } { commons-logging.jar } { concurrent.jar } { getopt.jar } { jboss-common.jar } { jboss-jmx.jar } { jboss-system.jar } { jboss-xml-binding.jar } { log4j-boot.jar }

The curly braces define the targets. This is all it takes to compile these jars into seperate assemblies that automatically reference eachother, as required.

Using NDepend (which Patrick Smacchia kindly gave me a free copy of) you can easily graph the dependencies of the resulting assemblies:

In this case there aren't any cycles, but had there been, it would have made no differences.

The multi target feature is by no means done. I want to add a -sharedclassloader option to enable multiple assemblies to share a single Java class loader. I'm also considering some options to select which classes/packages go in which assembly. This would be helpful for splitting the core class library into multiple assemblies.

Changes:

• Added support to ikvmstub for automatically exporting non-vector array types.
• Implemented/fixed support for pointers, by ref and non-vector arrays in IKVM.Reflection.Emit.
• Fixed pointer detection to work for types with multiple indirection levels.
• Changed proxy stub name mangling to work around ildasm bug.
• Fixed IKVM.Reflection.Emit to not write token of FAULT pseudo exception that is used as a marker for fault blocks.
• Fixed class loading to take ClassLoader lock.
• Changed ikvmc not to generate warning when it loads ikvmstub generated classes.
• Removed our version of System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute and instead add System.Core.jar to the compilation, this will allow us to reference the real ExtensionAttribute when it is available and yet the build will still work (albeit with a warning and without the ExtensionAttribute) when it is not available (i.e. when building on .NET 2.0).
• Did some clean up and restructuring in IKVM.Reflection.Emit.
• Fixed sorting of InterfaceImpl table in IKVM.Reflection.Emit.
• Removed hard coded public keys from JniInterface.cs and Configuration.java.
• Changed build process so that version number for all assemblies only has to be specified in CommonAssemblyInfo.cs.
• Enabled multi target support.
• Fixed typo in IKVM.Reflection.Emit that caused assembly minor version to be set to major version.
• Added assembly version to ikvmstub.

As always with a development snapshot, don't use this in production, but please do try it out and let me know about it. The sources are available in cvs and the binaries here: ikvmbin-0.39.3245.zip