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   1 * Software Availability
   2
   3         The Virtual Execution System is available in package `mono'.
   4         Currently this contains a metadata library and the
   5         disassembler.  Please refer to our <a
   6         href="runtime.html">Runtime</a> description for more details
   7         on this part of the project.
   8
   9         Some useful links: <a
  10         href="http://www.go-mono.org/mono-beginning.html">Resources/Beginning
  11         section</a>, the <a
  12         href="http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html">FAQ</a> and the <a
  13         href="http://geneura.ugr.es/~jaime/deploy/mono-common-problems.html">
  14         Mono Common Problems</a>.
  15
  16         <table>
  17           <tbody>
  18           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
  19             <td>
  20               <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
  21               <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
  22               Aug 23rd, 2002.
  23             </td>
  24             <td>
  25               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
  26                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
  27                   <td>
  28                     <b>Source Code</b>
  29                   </td>
  30                   <td>
  31                     <ul>
  32                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
  33                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
  34                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
  35                     </ul>
  36                   </td>
  37                 </tr>
  38                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
  39                   <td>
  40                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
  41                   </td>
  42                   <td>
  43                     <ul>
  44                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
  45                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
  46                     </ul>
  47                   </td>
  48                 </tr>
  49                 <tr>
  50                  <td></td>
  51                 </tr>
  52                 <tr>
  53                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  54                     <b>Red Hat 7.3/x86</b>
  55                     <ul>
  56                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  57                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  58                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  59                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  60                     </ul>
  61                   </td>
  62                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  63                     <b>Red Hat 7.1/x86</b>
  64                     <ul>
  65                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  66                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  67                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  68                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  69                     </ul>
  70                   </td>
  71                 </tr>
  72                 <tr>
  73                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  74                     <b>Mandrake 8.2/x86</b>
  75                     <ul>
  76                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i586.rpm</a>
  77                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i586.rpm</a>
  78                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i586.rpm</a>
  79                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i586.rpm</a>
  80                     </ul>
  81                   </td>
  82                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  83                     <b>SuSE 8.0/x86</b>
  84                     <ul>
  85                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  86                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
  87                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  88                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
  89                     </ul>
  90                   </td>
  91                 </tr>
  92                 <tr bgcolor="#999999">
  93                   <td>
  94                     <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>
  95                     <ul>
  96                       <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>
  97                     </ul>
  98                   </td>
  99                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 100                     <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>
 101                     <ul>
 102                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
 103                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
 104                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
 105                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
 106                     </ul>
 107                   </td>
 108                 </tr>
 109               </table>
 110             </td>
 111           </tr>
 112           <tr>
 113             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 114             <td>
 115               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 116             </td>
 117             <td>
 118                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 119                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 120             </td>
 121           </tr>
 122           </tbody>
 123         </table>
 124
 125 ** Binaries for other platforms.
 126
 127         Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
 128
 129         <ul>
 130                 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
 131                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
 132         </ul>
 133
 134 * Snapshots
 135
 136 <a name="snapshots">
 137
 138         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
 139         the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
 140         Time).  These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
 141         snapshot of the tree.
 142
 143         The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
 144         Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
 145
 146 * Compiling with scripts
 147
 148         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
 149         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
 150         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
 151         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
 152         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
 153         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
 154         the script, follow these simple steps:
 155
 156         <ul>
 157                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
 158                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 159                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
 160                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
 161                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 162         </ul>
 163
 164         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
 165         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
 166         You should install these packages from your distribution or
 167         with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
 168         the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
 169
 170         The script will download required packages from
 171         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
 172         directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
 173         anonymous cvs;
 174         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 175         select a particular cvs server.
 176
 177 <a name="install">
 178 ** Building the software manually
 179
 180         You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
 181         href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
 182         <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 183
 184 *** Building on Linux
 185
 186         <ul>
 187                 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
 188                 <pre>
 189                 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
 190                 cd mono-X.XX
 191
 192                 </pre>
 193                 <p>
 194
 195                 Then configure, compile and install:
 196
 197                 <pre>
 198
 199                 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 200                 make
 201                 make install</pre>
 202
 203                 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
 204                 libraries.
 205
 206                 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
 207                 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
 208
 209                 <pre>
 210                 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
 211
 212                 cd mcs-X.XX
 213                 </pre>
 214
 215                 Then use the following command to compile and install:
 216
 217                 <pre>
 218
 219                 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
 220                 </pre>
 221
 222                 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
 223         </ul>
 224
 225 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 226
 227 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 228
 229         <ul>
 230
 231                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 232
 233                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 234                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 235
 236                 * Change to the /usr/local directory
 237                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 238                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 239
 240         </ul>
 241         <ul>
 242
 243                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 244                 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 245                 </a>, untar the snapshot.
 246
 247                 * Change directories to "mcs".
 248
 249                 * Compile:
 250
 251                 <pre>
 252                 make
 253                 </pre>
 254         </ul>
 255
 256 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 257
 258         <ul>
 259
 260                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 261                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 262                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 263
 264                 * Change directories to "mono".
 265
 266                 * Configure, compile and install:
 267                 <pre>
 268                 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 269                 make
 270                 make install
 271                 </pre>
 272
 273         </ul>
 274
 275 * Software resources and notes
 276
 277                 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
 278
 279                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 280                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 281                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 282
 283                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 284                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 285                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 286                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 287
 288                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 289                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 290                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip</a><br>
 291                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a> <br>
 292                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a> <br>
 293                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
 294                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7-20020101.zip</a> <br>
 295                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip</a><br>
 296
 297
 298                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 299                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 300                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 301                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 302                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 303                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 304                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 305
 306
 307         </ul>
 308
 309
 310 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 311
 312
 313         <ul>
 314
 315                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 316                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 317                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 318
 319                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 320                   (I had to change line 674 of
 321                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 322                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 323                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 324
 325 <pre>
 326 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 327 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 328 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 329 make
 330 make install
 331 </pre>
 332
 333                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 334                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 335                   the binary package available at <a
 336                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 337                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 338
 339
 340                 * Download, compile and install the
 341                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 342                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 343
 344         </ul>
 345