Besides FSharpCodeProvider (from PowerPack), what else do you need to compile F # code on the fly?

Question

I compile code on the fly using the FSharpCodeProvider class included in PowerPack libraries. The fact is that in a machine without visual studio 2010 I can only do this as long as I have a standalone F # compiler installed on this machine. Does anyone know if this is so? I am worried that the standalone compiler is only distributed if the CTP application does not have the final version.

thanks

Answer 1

You can see in the source code that FSharpCodeProvider calls fsc.exe. So yes, it depends on the F # compiler.

Individual releases of F # are always called CTP (I don’t know why). In the past, it was pointed out that the code is the same as in versions of Visual Studio.