[IronPython] Compiling with Pyc for Silverlight

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> In theory there's just 1 IL re-write that's required for this to work.  And that should be replacing the references to mscorlib/IronPython to point at the Silverlight versions.  There's no way to directly have the written binaries target Silverlight because Reflection Emit has no cross-compilation support :(.
>   

I need to rewrite references to the IronPython / DLR assemblies to use 
the Silverlight versions and the same for mscorlib.

Any pointers as to how I should start?

> Do you know what's happening when trying to import packages?  
>
>  


SystemError
at app.py in app.py, line 7 ? SystemError: Could not load type 
'Microsoft.Runtime.CompilerServices.StrongBox`1' from assembly 
'Microsoft.Scripting.Core, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, 
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'. ? Hide

Michael

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
>> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:34 AM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Subject: [IronPython] Compiling with Pyc for Silverlight
>>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I'd like to modify Pyc to work with Silverlight. I tried it with simple
>> modules and it works straightforwardly - but I have a report that it
>> doesn't work with packages.
>>
>> I'll try it - but if anyone has any idea of how to modify the bytecode
>> generation to target the CoreCLR it would be appreciated. As far as I
>> can tell from looking at the source it isn't adding any direct
>> references to the desktop assemblies. Any clues as to what changes I
>> should make? (Other than running from Silverlight and serializing the
>> generated assemblies from memory to base64 which I would prefer to
>> avoid...).
>>
>> Michael
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