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Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:04 pm**

I ran into a bit of difficulty trying to build a dll that could be used by referencing it with the -r: option.

I created a file to be used as a dll called Test1.cobra

namespace Bob
    class Julie
        pass

    class George
        pass

Then I created a file to use Julie and George called Test2.cobra

use Bob

class Program
    def main is shared
        print Julie()
        print George()

When built together using the -files: option, everything worked as expected.

The way I got them to build independently was:

copy Cobra.Lang.dll to the local directory

cobra -t:lib -ert:no Test1.cobra

cobra -r:Test1.dll Test2.cobra
Building Test1 without -ert:no resulted in redefinition of CobraImp and Tracer errors when I built Test2.

Building Test1 without -ert:no and Test2 with -ert:no resulted in:

error: COBRA INTERNAL ERROR / ArgumentException / An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:48 pm**

I'll have to look into the internal error.

Also, when Cobra embeds the run-time, it needs to put a unique id on the Cobra.Lang namespace to avoid collisions.

Finally, I think that down the road, we'll slap Cobra.Lang.dll in the GAC and -ert will default to "no" with a default -r:Cobra.Lang.

Thanks for the report.

Posted: **Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:04 pm**

Okay, one more issue. Using the same Test1.cobra from the previous example and changing Test2.cobra to:

class Program
    def main is shared
        print Bob.Julie()
        print Bob.George()

results in an intermediate file with syntax errors:

Code: Select all: CobraImp.PrintLine(CobraImp.ToString((Bob.new Julie()))); CobraImp.PrintLine(CobraImp.ToString((Bob.new George())));

Posted: **Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:27 pm**

Confirmed and will fix in the next release.

Posted: **Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:29 pm**

Well one workaround is to contain the classes in two namespaces. It's only the "one parent namespace" case that breaks. The Cobra test cases for qualified types had two which is why this bug escaped me. I'm adding the "one" and "three" cases now. Only "one" is broken.

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