These are the sources to the Mono C# compiler --------------------------------------------- Read the mcs/docs/compiler.txt for an overview of the compiler. Testing the Compiler -------------------- You might want to use the `make btest' in this directory to have the compiler bootstrap itself, this is the basic regression test. Before commiting changes to MCS, make sure that all the tests in `mcs/tests' pass, and all the tests in 'mcs/errors' have the expected result, type: cd mcs # The top-level 'mcs' directory make compiler-tests If you want to test the installed compiler, you can run: cd mcs # The top-level 'mcs' directory make test-installed-compiler Full Bootstrap ============== To finally ensure the state of the compiler, it is ideal to do a full bootstrap, to do this, do: cd mcs make clean; make make install That installs the compiler and assemblies compiled by the new compiler. Then, repeat that step again: make clean make If things work, the compiler has not added a new regression while building the mscorlib and the compiler itself. Tests ===== When bugs are fixed, new tests must be added to the `mcs/tests' directory to excercise the problem and to guarantee that we keep the compiler in a good state. When an error is reported, it should be added to mcs/errors. We try to make the errors numbers be the same as the ones in Microsoft C#, if this is not possible, allocate a negative error number, and list it in mcs/errors/errors.txt