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[Lonnie Cumberland]

Greetings All,

I hope that you are doing well.

I'm a bit new to Mono-VB but am interested in compiling up the mono VB.NET
compiler to get a feel for the sources and play a bit with it on my windows
machine.

Given that, can someone please give me an idea as to what sources need to
be downloaded from the Mono-GitHub?

I found the older mono/mono-basic stuff but could not locate the new
implementation that is supposed to be for VB.Net.

Also, in my reading on the Mono website, it says that the Mono basic
(VB.Net) implementation was compiled with VB.Net and I was wondering if the
Mono basic (VB.Net) implementation could be compiled with the latest
pre-compiled Mono basic application?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie

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[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

The source code for Mono's VB implementation is located here:

http://github.com/mono/mono-basic

However the code is not up-to-date with the newest VB versions (it's
compatible with VB8, which came out with VS2005; i.e. it's 10 years old
now). My recommendation would be to look at the the Roslyn VB compiler from
Microsoft instead (
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/VisualBasic),
unless you have any particular interest in our code.

Best regards,
Rolf

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <

Post by Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All,
I hope that you are doing well.
I'm a bit new to Mono-VB but am interested in compiling up the mono VB.NET
compiler to get a feel for the sources and play a bit with it on my windows
machine.
Given that, can someone please give me an idea as to what sources need to
be downloaded from the Mono-GitHub?
I found the older mono/mono-basic stuff but could not locate the new
implementation that is supposed to be for VB.Net.
Also, in my reading on the Mono website, it says that the Mono basic
(VB.Net) implementation was compiled with VB.Net and I was wondering if the
Mono basic (VB.Net) implementation could be compiled with the latest
pre-compiled Mono basic application?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie
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[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hi Rolf,

Thanks for your reply and I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Actually, I want to play around with the mono-basic source code to see if I
can get it to compile so that I can learn more about how it works.

I would like to get a pre-compiled version of mono vbnc to see if I can
compile the sources after which I would like work with the code a bit and
see if I can improve it some as it would make a good scripting language for
general purposes as well and would like to see if it can be made into a
standalone version.

Mostly this is an initial learning exercise. Can you please tell me what
was the last Mono version that had this functional runtime and compiler
working so that I might be able to download that older version to get the
pre-compiled vbnc and runtime out?

Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lonnie

---------------------------------

Post by Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Hi,
http://github.com/mono/mono-basic
However the code is not up-to-date with the newest VB versions (it's
compatible with VB8, which came out with VS2005; i.e. it's 10 years old
now). My recommendation would be to look at the the Roslyn VB compiler from
Microsoft instead (
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/VisualBasic),
unless you have any particular interest in our code.
Best regards,
Rolf
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <

Post by Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All,
I hope that you are doing well.
I'm a bit new to Mono-VB but am interested in compiling up the mono
VB.NET compiler to get a feel for the sources and play a bit with it on
my windows machine.
Given that, can someone please give me an idea as to what sources need to
be downloaded from the Mono-GitHub?
I found the older mono/mono-basic stuff but could not locate the new
implementation that is supposed to be for VB.Net.
Also, in my reading on the Mono website, it says that the Mono basic
(VB.Net) implementation was compiled with VB.Net and I was wondering if the
Mono basic (VB.Net) implementation could be compiled with the latest
pre-compiled Mono basic application?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie
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[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

mono-basic does not depend on already having a compiler in order to compile
(the git repository contains a bootstrapping compiler). On a Linux system
all you need is having Mono installed already and run 'make' from the
command-line; on Windows you can compile the solution using Visual Studio.

The compiler itself is located in the vbnc/vbnc directory:
https://github.com/mono/mono-basic/tree/master/vbnc/vbnc

Best regards,
Rolf

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <

Post by Lonnie Cumberland
Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your reply and I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Actually, I want to play around with the mono-basic source code to see if
I can get it to compile so that I can learn more about how it works.
I would like to get a pre-compiled version of mono vbnc to see if I can
compile the sources after which I would like work with the code a bit and
see if I can improve it some as it would make a good scripting language for
general purposes as well and would like to see if it can be made into a
standalone version.
Mostly this is an initial learning exercise. Can you please tell me what
was the last Mono version that had this functional runtime and compiler
working so that I might be able to download that older version to get the
pre-compiled vbnc and runtime out?
Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lonnie
---------------------------------

Post by Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Hi,
http://github.com/mono/mono-basic
However the code is not up-to-date with the newest VB versions (it's
compatible with VB8, which came out with VS2005; i.e. it's 10 years old
now). My recommendation would be to look at the the Roslyn VB compiler from
Microsoft instead (
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/VisualBasic),
unless you have any particular interest in our code.
Best regards,
Rolf
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Lonnie Cumberland <

Post by Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All,
I hope that you are doing well.
I'm a bit new to Mono-VB but am interested in compiling up the mono
VB.NET compiler to get a feel for the sources and play a bit with it on
my windows machine.
Given that, can someone please give me an idea as to what sources need
to be downloaded from the Mono-GitHub?
I found the older mono/mono-basic stuff but could not locate the new
implementation that is supposed to be for VB.Net.
Also, in my reading on the Mono website, it says that the Mono basic
(VB.Net) implementation was compiled with VB.Net and I was wondering if the
Mono basic (VB.Net) implementation could be compiled with the latest
pre-compiled Mono basic application?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie
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