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I am currently involved in some interesting programming language research which has, up until now, centred around extending the upcoming Java 7.0 compiler with some very powerful programmer-productivity-based features. The work should be equally applicable to related programming languages such as C#. I'm currently scoping out the options for prototyping a C# port of the functionality. I would prefer open-source options so that the fruits of this work can be shared with the broadest-possible audience. Thus the Mono C# compiler seems to be the most obvious starting point. I'm an experienced C#

We are starting a cross-platform project to be deployed to Android and iOS. Obviously, a lot of code is to be shared between the two, and some of the code relies heavily on the .NET framework items, like sqlite-net library does. The best way (afaik) to share the code between 2 projects is to use a PCL – this way it is possible to reference the project with shared code from both iOS and Android projects in a solution and have everything re-compiled and linked in a nice manner. However, a PCL created in MonoDevelop is compiled with gmcs compiler and some of external dependencies fail to be built

I'd like to consume Mono's compiler as a service from my regular .NET 3.5 application. I've downloaded the latest bits (2.6.7), created a simple console application in Visual Studio and referenced the Mono.CSharp dll. Then, in my console app (straight out of a sample online): Evaluator.Run("using System; using System.Linq;"); bool ress; object res; Evaluator.Evaluate( "from x in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles (\"C:\\\") select x;", out res, out ress); foreach (var v in (IEnumerable)res) { Console.Write(v); Console.Write(' '); } This throws an exception at Evaluator.Run (the first line): Illegal