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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">
 114                     <b>Linux s390</b>
 115                     <ul>
 116                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 117                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 118                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 119                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 120                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 121                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 122                     </ul>
 123                   </td>
 124                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 125                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>\r
 126                     <ul>\r
 127                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>\r
 128                     </ul>\r
 129                   </td>\r
 130                 </tr>
 131               </table>
 132             </td>
 133           </tr>
 134           <tr>
 135             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 136             <td>
 137               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 138             </td>
 139             <td>
 140                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 141                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 142             </td>
 143           </tr>
 144           </tr>
 145           </tbody>
 146         </table>
 147 <br>
 148 * Older Releases:
 149
 150         We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
 151
 152
 153         <table>
 154           <tbody>
 155           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 156             <td>
 157               <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
 158               <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
 159               Aug 23rd, 2002.
 160             </td>
 161             <td>
 162               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 163                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 164                   <td>
 165                     <b>Source Code</b>
 166                   </td>
 167                   <td>
 168                     <ul>
 169                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 170                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 171                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
 172                     </ul>
 173                   </td>
 174                 </tr>
 175                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 176                   <td>
 177                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 178                   </td>
 179                   <td>
 180                     <ul>
 181                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
 182                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
 183                     </ul>
 184                   </td>
 185                 </tr>
 186                 <tr>
 187                  <td></td>
 188                 </tr>
 189                 \r
 190                 <tr bgcolor="#999999">\r
 191                   <td>\r
 192                     <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>\r
 193                     <ul>\r
 194                       <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>\r
 195                     </ul>\r
 196                   </td>\r
 197                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 198                     <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>\r
 199                     <ul>\r
 200                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 201                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 202                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 203                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 204                     </ul>\r
 205                   </td>\r
 206                 </tr>\r
 207               </table>
 208             </td>
 209           </tr>
 210           </tbody>
 211         </table>
 212
 213 ** Binaries for other platforms.
 214
 215         Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
 216
 217         <ul>
 218                 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
 219                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
 220         </ul>
 221
 222 * Snapshots
 223
 224 <a name="snapshots">
 225
 226         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
 227         the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
 228         Time).  These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
 229         snapshot of the tree.
 230
 231         The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
 232         Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
 233
 234 * Compiling with scripts
 235
 236         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
 237         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
 238         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
 239         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
 240         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
 241         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
 242         the script, follow these simple steps:
 243
 244         <ul>
 245                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
 246                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 247                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
 248                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
 249                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 250         </ul>
 251
 252         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
 253         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
 254         You should install these packages from your distribution or
 255         with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
 256         the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
 257
 258         The script will download required packages from
 259         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
 260         directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
 261         anonymous cvs;
 262         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 263         select a particular cvs server.
 264
 265 <a name="install">
 266 ** Building the software manually
 267
 268         You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
 269         href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
 270         <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 271
 272 *** Building on Linux
 273
 274         <ul>
 275                 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
 276                 <pre>
 277                 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
 278                 cd mono-X.XX
 279
 280                 </pre>
 281                 <p>
 282
 283                 Then configure, compile and install:
 284
 285                 <pre>
 286
 287                 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 288                 make
 289                 make install</pre>
 290
 291                 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
 292                 libraries.
 293
 294                 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
 295                 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
 296
 297                 <pre>
 298                 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
 299
 300                 cd mcs-X.XX
 301                 </pre>
 302
 303                 Then use the following command to compile and install:
 304
 305                 <pre>
 306
 307                 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
 308                 </pre>
 309
 310                 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
 311         </ul>
 312
 313 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 314
 315 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 316
 317         <ul>
 318
 319                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 320
 321                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 322                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 323
 324                 * Change to the /usr/local directory
 325                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 326                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 327
 328         </ul>
 329         <ul>
 330
 331                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 332                 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 333                 </a>, untar the snapshot.
 334
 335                 * Change directories to "mcs".
 336
 337                 * Compile:
 338
 339                 <pre>
 340                 make
 341                 </pre>
 342         </ul>
 343
 344 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 345
 346         <ul>
 347
 348                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 349                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 350                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 351
 352                 * Change directories to "mono".
 353
 354                 * Configure, compile and install:
 355                 <pre>
 356                 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 357                 make
 358                 make install
 359                 </pre>
 360
 361         </ul>
 362
 363 * Software resources and notes
 364
 365                 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
 366
 367                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 368                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 369                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 370
 371                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 372                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 373                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 374                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 375
 376                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 377                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 378                   <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>
 379                   <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>
 380                   <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>
 381                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
 382                   <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>
 383                   <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>
 384
 385
 386                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 387                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 388                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 389                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 390                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 391                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 392                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 393
 394
 395         </ul>
 396
 397
 398 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 399
 400
 401         <ul>
 402
 403                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 404                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 405                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 406
 407                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 408                   (I had to change line 674 of
 409                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 410                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 411                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 412
 413 <pre>
 414 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 415 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 416 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 417 make
 418 make install
 419 </pre>
 420
 421                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 422                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 423                   the binary package available at <a
 424                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 425                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 426
 427
 428                 * Download, compile and install the
 429                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 430                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 431
 432         </ul>
 433