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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 0.16</b><br>
  21               <a href="archive/mono-0.16">Release notes</a><br>
  22               Oct 1st, 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-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
  33                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
  34                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</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-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
  45                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-1.src.rpm">mono-0.16-1.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-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  57                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  58                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  59                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  60                     </ul>
  61                   </td>
  62                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  63                     <b>Red Hat 7.2/x86</b>
  64                     <ul>
  65                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  66                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  67                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  68                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  69                     </ul>
  70                   </td>
  71                 </tr>
  72                 <tr>
  73                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  74                     <b>Red Hat 7.1/x86</b>
  75                     <ul>
  76                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  77                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  78                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  79                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  80                     </ul>
  81                   </td>
  82                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  83                     <b>Mandrake 8.2/x86</b>
  84                     <ul>
  85                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  86                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  87                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-0.16-1.i586.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i586.rpm</a>
  88                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i586.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i586.rpm</a>
  89                     </ul>
  90                   </td>
  91                 </tr>
  92                 <tr>
  93                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  94                     <b>SuSE 8.0/x86</b>
  95                     <ul>
  96                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  97                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  98                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
  99                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
 100                     </ul>
 101                   </td>
 102                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 103                     <b>Red Hat 8.0/x86</b>
 104                     <ul>
 105                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 106                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 107                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
 108                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.i386.rpm</a>
 109                     </ul>
 110                   </td>
 111                 </tr>
 112                 <tr>
 113                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 114                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>\r
 115                     <ul>\r
 116                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>\r
 117                     </ul>\r
 118                   </td>\r
 119                 </tr>
 120               </table>
 121             </td>
 122           </tr>
 123           <tr>
 124             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 125             <td>
 126               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 127             </td>
 128             <td>
 129                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 130                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 131             </td>
 132           </tr>
 133           </tr>
 134           </tbody>
 135         </table>
 136 <br>
 137 * Older Releases:
 138
 139         We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
 140
 141
 142         <table>
 143           <tbody>
 144           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 145             <td>
 146               <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
 147               <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
 148               Aug 23rd, 2002.
 149             </td>
 150             <td>
 151               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 152                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 153                   <td>
 154                     <b>Source Code</b>
 155                   </td>
 156                   <td>
 157                     <ul>
 158                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 159                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 160                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
 161                     </ul>
 162                   </td>
 163                 </tr>
 164                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 165                   <td>
 166                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 167                   </td>
 168                   <td>
 169                     <ul>
 170                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
 171                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
 172                     </ul>
 173                   </td>
 174                 </tr>
 175                 <tr>
 176                  <td></td>
 177                 </tr>
 178                 \r
 179                 <tr bgcolor="#999999">\r
 180                   <td>\r
 181                     <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>\r
 182                     <ul>\r
 183                       <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>\r
 184                     </ul>\r
 185                   </td>\r
 186                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 187                     <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>\r
 188                     <ul>\r
 189                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 190                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 191                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 192                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 193                     </ul>\r
 194                   </td>\r
 195                 </tr>\r
 196               </table>
 197             </td>
 198           </tr>
 199           </tbody>
 200         </table>
 201
 202 ** Binaries for other platforms.
 203
 204         Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
 205
 206         <ul>
 207                 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
 208                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
 209         </ul>
 210
 211 * Snapshots
 212
 213 <a name="snapshots">
 214
 215         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
 216         the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
 217         Time).  These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
 218         snapshot of the tree.
 219
 220         The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
 221         Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
 222
 223 * Compiling with scripts
 224
 225         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
 226         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
 227         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
 228         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
 229         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
 230         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
 231         the script, follow these simple steps:
 232
 233         <ul>
 234                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
 235                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 236                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
 237                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
 238                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 239         </ul>
 240
 241         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
 242         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
 243         You should install these packages from your distribution or
 244         with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
 245         the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
 246
 247         The script will download required packages from
 248         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
 249         directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
 250         anonymous cvs;
 251         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 252         select a particular cvs server.
 253
 254 <a name="install">
 255 ** Building the software manually
 256
 257         You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
 258         href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
 259         <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 260
 261 *** Building on Linux
 262
 263         <ul>
 264                 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
 265                 <pre>
 266                 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
 267                 cd mono-X.XX
 268
 269                 </pre>
 270                 <p>
 271
 272                 Then configure, compile and install:
 273
 274                 <pre>
 275
 276                 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 277                 make
 278                 make install</pre>
 279
 280                 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
 281                 libraries.
 282
 283                 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
 284                 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
 285
 286                 <pre>
 287                 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
 288
 289                 cd mcs-X.XX
 290                 </pre>
 291
 292                 Then use the following command to compile and install:
 293
 294                 <pre>
 295
 296                 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
 297                 </pre>
 298
 299                 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
 300         </ul>
 301
 302 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 303
 304 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 305
 306         <ul>
 307
 308                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 309
 310                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 311                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 312
 313                 * Change to the /usr/local directory
 314                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 315                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 316
 317         </ul>
 318         <ul>
 319
 320                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 321                 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 322                 </a>, untar the snapshot.
 323
 324                 * Change directories to "mcs".
 325
 326                 * Compile:
 327
 328                 <pre>
 329                 make
 330                 </pre>
 331         </ul>
 332
 333 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 334
 335         <ul>
 336
 337                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 338                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 339                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 340
 341                 * Change directories to "mono".
 342
 343                 * Configure, compile and install:
 344                 <pre>
 345                 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 346                 make
 347                 make install
 348                 </pre>
 349
 350         </ul>
 351
 352 * Software resources and notes
 353
 354                 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
 355
 356                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 357                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 358                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 359
 360                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 361                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 362                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 363                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 364
 365                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 366                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 367                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.11-20020310.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.11-20020310.zip</a><br>
 368                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-2.0.4-20020703.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-2.0.4-20020703.zip</a> <br>
 369                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-2.0.4-20020703.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-2.0.4-20020703.zip</a> <br>
 370                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
 371                   <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>
 372                   <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>
 373
 374
 375                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 376                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 377                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 378                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 379                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 380                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 381                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 382
 383
 384         </ul>
 385
 386
 387 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 388
 389
 390         <ul>
 391
 392                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 393                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 394                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 395
 396                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 397                   (I had to change line 674 of
 398                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 399                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 400                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 401
 402 <pre>
 403 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 404 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 405 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 406 make
 407 make install
 408 </pre>
 409
 410                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 411                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 412                   the binary package available at <a
 413                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 414                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 415
 416
 417                 * Download, compile and install the
 418                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 419                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 420
 421         </ul>
 422