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