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