Using IKVM to convert a JAR (Flying Saucer - xhtmlrenderer)

I wanted to use the Flying Saucer Java API in .NET so I tried to use IKVM to convert the Flying Saucer library:

ikvmc core-renderer.jar

For some reason, IKVMC gave me an exe core-renderer.exe so I renamed it to core-renderer.dll, added to my assemblies and hacked away

using java.io;
using java.lang;
using com.lowagie.text;
using org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf;

namespace flying_saucer
{
    class FlyingSaucerApp
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
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            // This works
            DocumentException dummy = new DocumentException();

            ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();


            // For some reason, this raises NoClassDefFoundError                
            renderer.setDocument(File("hello.xhtml").toURI().toURL().toString());
        }
    }
}

For some reason, it is giving java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.lowagie.text.DocumentException. I realized DocumentException is something ITextRender() may throw, but I've already included com.lowagie.text, any ideas?

It turned out that for this particular situation, I needed to render both Flying Saucer and iText (a dependency of Flying Saucer) and have the Flying Saucer assembly reference to its dependency:

ikvmc -target:library itext.jar
ikvmc -target:library -reference:itext.dll core-renderer.jar

(For newbies: If you didn't read any documentation and are just trying the commands, you also need to make sure the DLL files accompanying IKVMC is also present -- the easiest way to do this is to dump all the IKVMC files beside your iText JAR files)

Make sure you've included IKVM.AWT.WinForms.dll, IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll, IKVM.Runtime.dll and IKVM.Runtime.JNI.dll assemblies into your project. Also to avoid generating an executable and then renaming it you could specify the -target:library switch when compiling.