Hi,

I got Eclipse running under IKVM under Mono. A screenshot, Makefiles etc. can be found here:

http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/

The port uses a JNI provider written in C which works with mono. Eclipse startup up+shuts down in about 1 minute on an 1Ghz PC, while consuming about 90MB of memory. It works with Mono 0.24 and current mono CVS.

I made some modifications to IKVM which are in the attached patch.

Could they be applied to the official version?

The modifications are:

- ikvm.build: fix case of directory names

- ClassLoaderWrapper.cs: Create Assemblies with Run flag, so the

runtime can apply some memory saving optimizations.

- TypeWrapper.cs: Cache field lookups

- classpath.cs: Make shared library loading work under UNIX

There is one other issue: Mono does not yet support the

GetLoadedModules() method, so this has to be commmented out in classpath.cs and in Handler.java.

BTW: The IBM RVM project includes a nice JNI testsuite:

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/

The Mauve test status of mono:

191 of 7294 tests failed

Would it be possible to post the Mauve test results of IKVM somewhere (with -verbose) so I can compare it to the Mono version?

have fun

Zoltan

Can IKVMC handle Class.forName if the target class is in an assembly that isn't directly referenced by the assembly making the call?

Class.forName("System.Windows.Forms.Form, " +
    "System.Windows.Forms, " +
    "Version=1.0.3300.0, " +
    "Culture=neutral, " +
    "PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089");

URL[] classpath = new URL[1];
classpath[0] = new URL("...");
ClassLoader loader = new URLClassLoader(classpath);
Class clazz = loader.loadClass("...");