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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 code for the C# compiler as well as the language error
  10         test suite and the class library are in the `mcs' package, we
  11         will move this later into `mono' itself.
  12
  13         In order to make mcs and the class libraries you will need a computer
  14         running Windows with the <strong>GNU make tools</strong> from the
  15         <strong>Cygwin</strong> environment, <strong>Microsoft's .NET Framework
  16         SDK</strong>, <strong>GLIB 1.3</strong> and
  17         <strong>pkg-config</strong>.
  18
  19 <a name="sources">
  20 *** Sources
  21
  22         Stay up to date on the Mono team's development using the
  23         <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-cvs-list">
  24         mono-cvs-list</a> mailing list.
  25
  26 <a name="feb-22">
  27         <b>Mono 0.9</b>
  28
  29         New packaged versions of the Mono C# compiler and Mono runtime
  30         are now available.  The latest version is 0.9.
  31
  32         <ul>
  33                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9">Mono 0.9 release notes</a>
  34
  35                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">mcs-0.9.tar.gz</a>
  36                 Mono C# compiler
  37                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">mono-0.9.tar.gz</a>
  38                 Mono runtime
  39         </ul>
  40
  41 <a name="snapshots">
  42         For up to date sources, it is recommended that you use the Mono
  43         source code from either the
  44         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots</a> or
  45         the <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly
  46         snapshots are done every night at 10pm EST (Boston Time).
  47
  48         The nightly snapshots are not guaranteed to build, but most of the
  49         time they should.  They should give you a window to see what we are
  50         up to.
  51
  52         You can download the GNU make tools and the Cygwin environment from
  53         <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
  54
  55         You can download Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
  56         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
  57         msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
  58
  59         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
  60         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
  61         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
  62         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
  63         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
  64         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
  65         the script, follow these simple steps:
  66
  67         <ul>
  68                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  69                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
  70                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
  71                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
  72                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
  73         </ul>
  74
  75         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
  76         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
  77         You should install these packages from your distribution or
  78         with the cygwin installer.
  79
  80         The script will download required packages from
  81         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
  82         directory.  The cvs server chosen defaults to anonymous cvs;
  83         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
  84         select a particular cvs server.
  85
  86 <a name="install">
  87 ** Building the software manually
  88
  89 *** Download the required software.
  90
  91         <ul>
  92
  93                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
  94                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
  95                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
  96
  97                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
  98                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
  99                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 100                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 101
 102                 * Precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config packages (and
 103                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 104                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip</a>
 105                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a>
 106                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a>
 107                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a>
 108                   <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>
 109                   <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>
 110
 111                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 112                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 113                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 114                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 115                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 116                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 117                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 118
 119
 120         </ul>
 121
 122
 123 *** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config libraries.
 124
 125         <ul>
 126
 127                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 128
 129                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 130                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 131
 132                 * Change to the <strong>/usr/local</strong> directory
 133                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 134                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 135
 136         </ul>
 137
 138 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 139
 140         <ul>
 141
 142                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 143                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 144                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 145
 146                 * Change directories to <strong>"mcs"</strong>.
 147
 148                 * Compile:
 149
 150 <pre>
 151 <strong>make windows</strong>
 152 </pre>
 153
 154         </ul>
 155
 156 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 157
 158         <ul>
 159
 160                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 161                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 162                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 163
 164                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 165
 166                 * Configure, compile and install:
 167
 168 <pre><strong>
 169 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 170 make
 171 make install
 172 </strong></pre>
 173
 174         </ul>
 175
 176 *** On Unix, to compile the mono runtime:
 177
 178         <ul>
 179
 180                 * Install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkg-config">pkg-config</a>.
 181
 182                 * Install glib 1.3. You can download it
 183                   from <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">ftp.gtk.org</a>. Maybe you need
 184                   to modify your ACLOCAL_FLAGS for pkg-config, for example if
 185                   your install prefix is /usr/local:
 186 <pre>
 187 <strong>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"</strong>
 188 </pre>
 189
 190                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 191                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots
 192                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 193
 194                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 195
 196                 * Configure, compile and install:
 197 <pre><strong>
 198 ./configure
 199 make
 200 make install</strong>
 201 </pre>
 202         </ul>
 203
 204 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config from source:
 205
 206
 207         <ul>
 208
 209                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 210                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 211                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 212
 213                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 214                   (I had to change line 674 of
 215                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 216                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 217                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 218
 219 <pre><strong>
 220 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 221 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 222 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 223 make
 224 make install</strong>
 225 </pre>
 226
 227                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 228                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 229                   the binary package available at <a
 230                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 231                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 232
 233
 234                 * Download, compile and install the
 235                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">
 236                   glib 1.3</a> from source.
 237
 238         </ul>
 239
 240
 241 <a name="oldreleases">
 242
 243 *** Very old releases.
 244
 245                 <ul>
 246                 <a name="feb-11">
 247                 <b>February 11, 2002</b>
 248                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">mcs-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 249                 Mono C# compiler
 250                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">mono-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 251                 Mono runtime
 252                 </ul>
 253
 254                 <a name="sep-18">
 255                 <b>September 18, 2001</b>
 256                 <ul>
 257                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz">mono-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.7 release.
 258                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz">mcs-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.7 release.
 259                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Release Notes.</a>
 260                 </ul>
 261
 262                 <a name="august-22">
 263                 <b>August 22, 2001</b>
 264                 <ul>
 265                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6.tar.gz">mono-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.6 release.
 266                 * <a href="archive/mono-compiler-classes-0.6.tar.gz">mono-compiler-classes-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.6 release.
 267                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6">Release Notes.</a>
 268                 </ul>
 269
 270
 271                 <a name="july-29">
 272                 <b>July 29, 2001</b>
 273                 <ul>
 274                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5.tar.gz">mono-0.5.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.5 release.
 275                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5">Release Notes.</a>
 276                 </ul>
 277
 278
 279                 <a name="july-22">
 280                 <b>July 22, 2001</b>
 281                 <ul>
 282                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 283                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-22-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 19</a>: CVS snapshot.
 284                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22">Release Notes.</a>
 285                 </ul>
 286
 287                 <a name="july-19">
 288                 <b>July 19th, 2001</b>
 289                 <ul>
 290                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 291                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-17-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 17</a>: CVS snapshot.
 292                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19">Release Notes.</a>
 293                 </ul>
 294
 295                 <a name="july-17">
 296                 <b>July 17th, 2001</b>
 297                 <ul>
 298                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 299                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-15-Jul-17-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 15</a>: CVS snapshot.
 300                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17">Release Notes.</a>
 301                 </ul>
 302
 303                 <a name="july-15">
 304                 <b>July 15th, 2001</b>
 305                 <ul>
 306                 * <a href="archive/mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 307                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4.tar.gz">mono-0.4.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 308                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4">Release Notes.</a>
 309                 </ul>
 310
 311                 <a name="july-14">
 312                 <b>July 14th, 2001</b>
 313                 <ul>
 314                 * <a href="archive/mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 315                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.3.tar.gz">mono-0.3.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 316                 </ul>
 317
 318                 <a name="july-8">
 319                 <b>July 8th, 2001</b>
 320
 321                 <ul>
 322                 * <a href="archive/mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 323                 * <a href="archive/mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 324                 </ul>
 325         </ul>
 326