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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         The software is also available on the `Mono' channel in <a href="http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet/">Red Carpet</a>.
  10
  11         Some useful links: <a
  12         href="http://www.go-mono.org/mono-beginning.html">Resources/Beginning
  13         section</a>, the <a
  14         href="http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html">FAQ</a>.
  15
  16         <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
  17         binaries of Mono 0.20 contained a virus.  Please read <a
  18         href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
  19
  20         <table>
  21           <tbody>
  22           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
  23             <td>
  24               <b>Release 0.20</b><br>
  25               <a href="archive/mono-0.20">Release notes</a><br>
  26               Jan 20th, 2003
  27             </td>
  28             <td>
  29               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
  30                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
  31                   <td>
  32                     <b>Source Code</b>
  33                   </td>
  34                   <td>
  35                     <ul>
  36                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.20.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
  37                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
  38                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
  39                       <li><a href="archive/xsp-0.3.tar.gz">XSP web server (0.3)</a>
  40                       <li><a href="archive/mono-debugger-0.2.0.tar.gz">Mono Debugger 0.2.0</a> <b><font color="#dd0000">New!</font></b>
  41                     </ul>
  42                   </td>
  43                 </tr>
  44                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
  45                   <td>
  46                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
  47                      (No RPMS for XSP).
  48                   </td>
  49                   <td>
  50                     <ul>
  51                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
  52                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20-1.src.rpm">mono-0.20-1.src.rpm</a>
  53                     </ul>
  54                   </td>
  55                 </tr>
  56                 <tr>
  57                  <td></td>
  58                 </tr>
  59                 <tr>
  60                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  61                     <b>Red Hat 7.3/x86</b>
  62                     <ul>
  63                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  64                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  65                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  66                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  67                     </ul>
  68                   </td>
  69                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  70                     <b>Red Hat 7.2/x86</b>
  71                     <ul>
  72                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  73                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  74                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  75                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  76                     </ul>
  77                   </td>
  78                 </tr>
  79                 <tr>
  80                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  81                     <b>Red Hat 7.1/x86</b>
  82                     <ul>
  83                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  84                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  85                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  86                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
  87                     </ul>
  88                   </td>
  89                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  90                     <b>Mandrake 8.2/x86</b>
  91                     <ul>
  92                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  93                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  94                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-0.20-1.i586.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i586.rpm</a>
  95                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i586.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i586.rpm</a>
  96                     </ul>
  97                   </td>
  98                 </tr>
  99                 <tr>
 100                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 101                     <b>SuSE 8.0/x86</b>
 102                      <ul>
 103                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 104                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 105                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 106                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 107                     </ul>
 108                   </td>
 109                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 110                     <b>Red Hat 8.0/x86</b>
 111                     <ul>
 112                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 113                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 114                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 115                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 116                     </ul>
 117                   </td>
 118                 </tr>
 119                 <tr>
 120                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 121                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>
 122                     <ul>
 123                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">Mono-Setup</a>
 124                     </ul>
 125                   </td>
 126                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 127                     <b>Debian packages</b>
 128                     <ul>
 129                       <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
 130                     </ul>
 131                   </td>
 132                 </tr>
 133               </table>
 134             </td>
 135           </tr>
 136           <tr>
 137             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 138             <td>
 139               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 140             </td>
 141             <td>
 142                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 143                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 144             </td>
 145           </tr>
 146           </tr>
 147           </tbody>
 148         </table>
 149
 150
 151 <br>
 152 * Older Releases:
 153
 154         We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
 155
 156         <table>
 157           <tbody>
 158           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 159             <td>
 160               <b>Release 0.19</b><br>
 161               <a href="archive/mono-0.19">Release notes</a><br>
 162               Jan 20th, 2003
 163             </td>
 164             <td>
 165               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 166                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 167                   <td>
 168                     <b>Source Code</b>
 169                   </td>
 170                   <td>
 171                     <ul>
 172                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.19.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 173                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.19.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 174                     </ul>
 175                   </td>
 176                 </tr>
 177                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 178                   <td>
 179                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 180                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 181                   </td>
 182                   <td>
 183                     <ul>
 184                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 185                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.19-1.src.rpm">mono-0.19-1.src.rpm</a>
 186                     </ul>
 187                   </td>
 188                 </tr>
 189                 <tr>
 190                  <td></td>
 191                 </tr>
 192               </table>
 193             </td>
 194           </tr>
 195           </tbody>
 196         </table>
 197
 198         <table>
 199           <tbody>
 200           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 201             <td>
 202               <b>Release 0.18</b><br>
 203               <a href="archive/mono-0.18">Release notes</a><br>
 204               Jan 12th, 2003
 205             </td>
 206             <td>
 207               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 208                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 209                   <td>
 210                     <b>Source Code</b>
 211                   </td>
 212                   <td>
 213                     <ul>
 214                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.18.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 215                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 216                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 217                       <li><a href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">XSP web server</a> <b><font color="#dd0000">New!</font></b>
 218                     </ul>
 219                   </td>
 220                 </tr>
 221                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 222                   <td>
 223                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 224                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 225                   </td>
 226                   <td>
 227                     <ul>
 228                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 229                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18-1.src.rpm">mono-0.18-1.src.rpm</a>
 230                     </ul>
 231                   </td>
 232                 </tr>
 233                 <tr>
 234                  <td></td>
 235                 </tr>
 236               </table>
 237             </td>
 238           </tr>
 239           </tbody>
 240         </table>
 241
 242         <table>
 243           <tbody>
 244           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 245             <td>
 246               <b>Release 0.17</b><br>
 247               <a href="archive/mono-0.17">Release notes</a><br>
 248               Dec 9th, 2002.
 249             </td>
 250             <td>
 251               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 252                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 253                   <td>
 254                     <b>Source Code</b>
 255                   </td>
 256                   <td>
 257                     <ul>
 258                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 259                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 260                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 261                     </ul>
 262                   </td>
 263                 </tr>
 264                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 265                   <td>
 266                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 267                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 268                   </td>
 269                   <td>
 270                     <ul>
 271                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 272                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-2.src.rpm">mono-0.17-2.src.rpm</a>
 273                     </ul>
 274                   </td>
 275                 </tr>
 276                 <tr>
 277                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 278                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>\r
 279                     <ul>\r
 280                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>\r
 281                     </ul>\r
 282                   </td>\r
 283                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 284                     <b>Debian packages</b>\r
 285                     <ul>\r
 286                       <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
 287                     </ul>\r
 288                   </td>\r
 289                 </tr>
 290               </table>
 291             </td>
 292           </tr>
 293           </tr>
 294           </tbody>
 295         </table>
 296
 297         <table>
 298           <tbody>
 299           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 300             <td>
 301               <b>Release 0.16</b><br>
 302               <a href="archive/mono-0.16">Release notes</a><br>
 303               Oct 1st, 2002.
 304             </td>
 305             <td>
 306               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 307                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 308                   <td>
 309                     <b>Source Code</b>
 310                   </td>
 311                   <td>
 312                     <ul>
 313                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 314                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 315                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 316                     </ul>
 317                   </td>
 318                 </tr>
 319                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 320                   <td>
 321                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 322                   </td>
 323                   <td>
 324                     <ul>
 325                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 326                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-1.src.rpm">mono-0.16-1.src.rpm</a>
 327                     </ul>
 328                   </td>
 329                 </tr>
 330                 <tr>
 331                  <td></td>
 332                 </tr>
 333                 <tr>
 334                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 335                     <b>Linux s390</b>
 336                     <ul>
 337                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 338                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 339                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 340                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 341                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 342                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 343                     </ul>
 344                   </td>
 345                 </tr>
 346               </table>
 347             </td>
 348           </tr>
 349           <tr>
 350           </tr>
 351           </tr>
 352           </tbody>
 353         </table>
 354
 355         <table>
 356           <tbody>
 357           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 358             <td>
 359               <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
 360               <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
 361               Aug 23rd, 2002.
 362             </td>
 363             <td>
 364               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 365                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 366                   <td>
 367                     <b>Source Code</b>
 368                   </td>
 369                   <td>
 370                     <ul>
 371                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 372                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 373                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
 374                     </ul>
 375                   </td>
 376                 </tr>
 377                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 378                   <td>
 379                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 380                   </td>
 381                   <td>
 382                     <ul>
 383                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
 384                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
 385                     </ul>
 386                   </td>
 387                 </tr>
 388                 <tr>
 389                  <td></td>
 390                 </tr>
 391                 \r
 392                 <tr bgcolor="#999999">\r
 393                   <td>\r
 394                     <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>\r
 395                     <ul>\r
 396                       <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>\r
 397                     </ul>\r
 398                   </td>\r
 399                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 400                     <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>\r
 401                     <ul>\r
 402                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 403                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 404                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 405                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 406                     </ul>\r
 407                   </td>\r
 408                 </tr>\r
 409               </table>
 410             </td>
 411           </tr>
 412           </tbody>
 413         </table>
 414
 415 ** Binaries for other platforms.
 416
 417         Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
 418
 419         <ul>
 420                 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
 421                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
 422         </ul>
 423
 424 * Snapshots
 425
 426 <a name="snapshots">
 427
 428         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
 429         the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
 430         Time).  These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
 431         snapshot of the tree.
 432
 433         The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
 434         Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
 435
 436 * Compiling the code
 437
 438         There are a number of ways of compiling Mono
 439
 440         <ul>
 441                 <li>From the <a href="#scripts">scripts</A>
 442
 443                 <LI><a href="#install">Manually</a> for the first time.
 444
 445                 <li>Manually, <a href="#upgrade">while upgrading</a> to CVS
 446         </ul>
 447
 448         (which is an easy way to get the latest CVS information)
 449
 450 <a name="scripts">
 451 * Compiling with scripts
 452
 453         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
 454         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
 455         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
 456         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
 457         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
 458         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
 459         the script, follow these simple steps:
 460
 461         <ul>
 462                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
 463                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 464                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
 465                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
 466                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 467         </ul>
 468
 469         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
 470         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
 471         You should install these packages from your distribution or
 472         with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
 473         the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
 474
 475         The script will download required packages from
 476         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
 477         directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
 478         anonymous cvs;
 479         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 480         select a particular cvs server.
 481
 482 <a name="install">
 483 ** Building the software manually
 484
 485         You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
 486         href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
 487         <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 488
 489 *** Building on Linux
 490
 491         <ul>
 492                 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
 493                 <pre>
 494                 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
 495                 cd mono-X.XX
 496
 497                 </pre>
 498                 <p>
 499
 500                 Then configure, compile and install:
 501
 502                 <pre>
 503
 504                 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 505                 make
 506                 make install</pre>
 507
 508                 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
 509                 libraries.
 510
 511                 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
 512                 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
 513
 514                 <pre>
 515                 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
 516
 517                 cd mcs-X.XX
 518                 </pre>
 519
 520                 Then use the following command to compile and install:
 521
 522                 <pre>
 523
 524                 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
 525                 </pre>
 526
 527                 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
 528         </ul>
 529
 530
 531 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 532
 533 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 534
 535         <ul>
 536
 537                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 538
 539                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 540                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 541
 542                 * Change to the /usr/local directory
 543                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 544                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 545
 546         </ul>
 547         <ul>
 548
 549                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 550                 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 551                 </a>, untar the snapshot.
 552
 553                 * Change directories to "mcs".
 554
 555                 * Compile:
 556
 557                 <pre>
 558                 make
 559                 </pre>
 560         </ul>
 561
 562 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 563
 564         <ul>
 565
 566                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 567                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 568                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 569
 570                 * Change directories to "mono".
 571
 572                 * Configure, compile and install:
 573                 <pre>
 574                 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 575                 make
 576                 make install
 577                 </pre>
 578
 579         </ul>
 580
 581 * Software resources and notes
 582
 583                 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
 584
 585                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 586                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 587                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 588
 589                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 590                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 591                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 592                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 593
 594                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 595                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 596                   <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>
 597                   <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>
 598                   <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>
 599                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
 600                   <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>
 601                   <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>
 602
 603
 604                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 605                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 606                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 607                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 608                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 609                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 610                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 611
 612
 613         </ul>
 614
 615
 616 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 617
 618
 619         <ul>
 620
 621                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 622                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 623                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 624
 625                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 626                   (I had to change line 674 of
 627                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 628                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 629                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 630
 631 <pre>
 632 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 633 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 634 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 635 make
 636 make install
 637 </pre>
 638
 639                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 640                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 641                   the binary package available at <a
 642                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 643                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 644
 645
 646                 * Download, compile and install the
 647                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 648                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 649
 650         </ul>
 651
 652 <a name="upgrading">
 653 ** Upgrading
 654
 655         To upgrade your Mono installation from CVS, it is very
 656         important that you update your Mono and MCS modules from CVS
 657         at the same time.  Failure to do so might result in a
 658         problematic installation as the runtime and the class
 659         libraries will be out of sync.
 660
 661         Run the following commands to update your CVS tree (more
 662         details in <a href="ccvs.html">Cvs and Mono</a> and the <A
 663         href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS and Mono</a> pages).
 664
 665         <pre>
 666         (cd mono; cvs update -dP .)
 667         (cd mcs; cvs update -dP .)
 668         </pre>
 669
 670         Once you have updated your sources, remove any cached
 671         assemblies or old binaries from the Mono "runtime" directory,
 672         and then compile each component:
 673
 674         <pre>
 675         (cd mono/runtime; rm *exe *dll)
 676         (cd mono; make)
 677         (cd mcs; make)
 678         </pre>
 679
 680         Now you can install the result:
 681
 682         <pre>
 683         (cd mono; make install)
 684         </pre>
 685
 686         Notice that following the above procedure does not require you
 687         to manually install the software in the `mcs' directory, as
 688         the relevant files will be copied by the `mono' makefiles.