Cesar Lopez Nataren's weblog

A long standing feature request for mjs had been the compilation of mutiple files, I'm really happy to announce that the support for it is advancing nicely, as images are worth a thousand words, take a look:

The files:

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> cat f.js
G ();

function F ()
{
    print ("F called");
}

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> cat h.js
F ();

function H ()
{
    print ("H called");
}

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> cat tensquared.js
var tensquared = (function (x) { return x * x; }) (10);
print ("tensquared = ", tensquared);

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> cat g.js
H ();

function G ()
{
    print ("G called");
}

The compilation action:

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> mjs f.js h.js tensquared.js  g.js
Compilation succeeded

Last but not the least, execution:

cesar@itaca:~/mono/mcs/jtests> mono f.exe
G called
F called
tensquared = 100
H called

I had to refactor and add some logic for identifier/method resolution and code generation, the another good news is that this changes will help me a lot for fixing some identifier and method resolution problems that we currently have. I need to test it and adapt our test suite for using this new feature. I'm expecting that this will speed up our test suite's execution time.