MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself
for the first time on December 28 2001. MCS became self hosting
- on January 3rd, 2001.
+ on January 3rd, 2002.
+
+ The Mono Runtime and the Mono execution engine were able to make
+ our compiler self hosting on March 12, 2002.
A test suite is maintained to track the progress of
the compiler and various programs are routinely compiled and
** Running MCS
- MCS is written in C# and uses heavily the .NET APIs. At this point
- MCS only runs on Windows with the .NET Framework SDK installed. Work
- is progressing rapidly in our JIT engine and our class libraries to
- allow MCS to be ran in non-Windows systems.
+ MCS is written in C# and uses heavily the .NET APIs. MCS runs
+ on Linux (with the Mono runtime) and Windows (with the .NET
+ framework runtime)
** Reporting Bugs in MCS