1 Visual Studio Build Setup for Mono's Managed Code
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4 The scripts in this directory are used to create the various .csproj
5 for each one of the modules in Mono. To avoid accidentally making
6 changes on the Makefile system that is not reflected on the csproj
7 system, the .csproj files are generated from the actual Makefile
10 This requires a couple of steps:
12 * Extract the order, compiler and compilation flags for all
13 managed code in Mono on Linux by using the existing Makefile
16 * Generate csproj files from the previous step
18 The idea is to ensure that we do not miss any compilation flag,
19 define, resource, reference, icon or any other element that might be
20 necessary to build the Mono class libraries.
22 * Extracting the Compilation Metadata
24 The first step is to extract the compilation metadata from the
25 existing Makefiles. This is done in stages, first a fully
26 working Mono compilation setup is required, and second the data
29 The extraction is done like this, from the toplevel Mono
34 With this input, it is possible to generate an XML file, to do
39 This will generate order.xml, this contains the ordered list in
40 which directories must be compiled as well as the command line
41 options used to build it.
43 * Generate csproj files
45 Run the genproj.exe executable in this directory.