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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         <table>
  17           <tbody>
  18           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
  19             <td>
  20               <b>Release 0.21</b><br>
  21               <a href="archive/mono-0.21">Release notes</a><br>
  22               Jan 21th, 2003
  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-0.21.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
  33                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.21.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
  34                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
  35                       <li><a href="archive/xsp-0.3.tar.gz">XSP web server (0.3)</a>
  36                     </ul>
  37                   </td>
  38                 </tr>
  39                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
  40                   <td>
  41                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
  42                      (No RPMS for XSP).
  43                   </td>
  44                   <td>
  45                     <ul>
  46                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
  47                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.21-1.src.rpm">mono-0.21-1.src.rpm</a>
  48                     </ul>
  49                   </td>
  50                 </tr>
  51                 <tr>
  52                  <td></td>
  53                 </tr>
  54                 <tr>
  55                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  56                     <b>Red Hat 7.3/x86</b>
  57                     <ul>
  58                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  59                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  60                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  61                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  62                     </ul>
  63                   </td>
  64                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  65                     <b>Red Hat 7.2/x86</b>
  66                     <ul>
  67                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  68                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  69                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  70                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  71                     </ul>
  72                   </td>
  73                 </tr>
  74                 <tr>
  75                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  76                     <b>Red Hat 7.1/x86</b>
  77                     <ul>
  78                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  79                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  80                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  81                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
  82                     </ul>
  83                   </td>
  84                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  85                     <b>Mandrake 8.2/x86</b>
  86                     <ul>
  87                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  88                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i586.rpm</a>
  89                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-0.21-1.i586.rpm">mono-0.21-1.i586.rpm</a>
  90                         <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-devel-0.21-1.i586.rpm">mono-devel-0.21-1.i586.rpm</a>
  91                     </ul>
  92                   </td>
  93                 </tr>
  94                 <tr>
  95                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
  96                     <b>SuSE 8.0/x86</b>
  97                      <ul>
  98                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
  99                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 100                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
 101                         <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.21-1.i386.rpm</a>
 102                     </ul>
 103                   </td>
 104                 </tr>
 105                 <tr>
 106                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 107                     <b>Debian packages</b>
 108                     <ul>
 109                       <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
 110                     </ul>
 111                   </td>
 112                 </tr>
 113                 <tr>
 114                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 115                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>
 116                     <ul>
 117                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">Mono-Setup</a>
 118                     </ul>
 119                   </td>
 120                 </tr>
 121               </table>
 122             </td>
 123           </tr>
 124           <tr>
 125             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 126             <td>
 127               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 128             </td>
 129             <td>
 130                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 131                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 132             </td>
 133           </tr>
 134           </tr>
 135           </tbody>
 136         </table>
 137
 138
 139 <br>
 140 * Older Releases:
 141
 142         We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
 143
 144         <table>
 145           <tbody>
 146           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 147             <td>
 148               <b>Release 0.20</b><br>
 149               <a href="archive/mono-0.20">Release notes</a><br>
 150               Jan 20th, 2003
 151             </td>
 152             <td>
 153               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 154                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 155                   <td>
 156                     <b>Source Code</b>
 157                   </td>
 158                   <td>
 159                     <ul>
 160                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.20.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 161                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 162                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 163                       <li><a href="archive/xsp-0.3.tar.gz">XSP web server (0.3)</a>
 164                     </ul>
 165                   </td>
 166                 </tr>
 167                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 168                   <td>
 169                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 170                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 171                   </td>
 172                   <td>
 173                     <ul>
 174                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 175                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20-1.src.rpm">mono-0.20-1.src.rpm</a>
 176                     </ul>
 177                   </td>
 178                 </tr>
 179                 <tr>
 180                  <td></td>
 181                 </tr>
 182                 <tr>
 183                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 184                     <b>Red Hat 8.0/x86</b>
 185                     <ul>
 186                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 187                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
 188                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 189                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.20-1.i386.rpm</a>
 190                     </ul>
 191                   </td>
 192                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 193                     <b>Debian packages</b>
 194                     <ul>
 195                       <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
 196                     </ul>
 197                   </td>
 198                 </tr>
 199                 <tr>
 200                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 201                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>
 202                     <ul>
 203                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">Mono-Setup</a>
 204                     </ul>
 205                   </td>
 206                 </tr>
 207               </table>
 208             </td>
 209           </tr>
 210           <tr>
 211             <tr bgcolor="#CCCCC">
 212             <td>
 213               <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
 214             </td>
 215             <td>
 216                 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
 217                 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 218             </td>
 219           </tr>
 220           </tr>
 221           </tbody>
 222         </table>
 223
 224         <table>
 225           <tbody>
 226           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 227             <td>
 228               <b>Release 0.19</b><br>
 229               <a href="archive/mono-0.19">Release notes</a><br>
 230               Jan 20th, 2003
 231             </td>
 232             <td>
 233               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 234                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 235                   <td>
 236                     <b>Source Code</b>
 237                   </td>
 238                   <td>
 239                     <ul>
 240                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.19.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 241                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.19.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 242                     </ul>
 243                   </td>
 244                 </tr>
 245                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 246                   <td>
 247                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 248                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 249                   </td>
 250                   <td>
 251                     <ul>
 252                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 253                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.19-1.src.rpm">mono-0.19-1.src.rpm</a>
 254                     </ul>
 255                   </td>
 256                 </tr>
 257                 <tr>
 258                  <td></td>
 259                 </tr>
 260               </table>
 261             </td>
 262           </tr>
 263           </tbody>
 264         </table>
 265
 266         <table>
 267           <tbody>
 268           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 269             <td>
 270               <b>Release 0.18</b><br>
 271               <a href="archive/mono-0.18">Release notes</a><br>
 272               Jan 12th, 2003
 273             </td>
 274             <td>
 275               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 276                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 277                   <td>
 278                     <b>Source Code</b>
 279                   </td>
 280                   <td>
 281                     <ul>
 282                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.18.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 283                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 284                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 285                       <li><a href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">XSP web server</a> <b><font color="#dd0000">New!</font></b>
 286                     </ul>
 287                   </td>
 288                 </tr>
 289                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 290                   <td>
 291                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 292                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 293                   </td>
 294                   <td>
 295                     <ul>
 296                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 297                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18-1.src.rpm">mono-0.18-1.src.rpm</a>
 298                     </ul>
 299                   </td>
 300                 </tr>
 301                 <tr>
 302                  <td></td>
 303                 </tr>
 304               </table>
 305             </td>
 306           </tr>
 307           </tbody>
 308         </table>
 309
 310         <table>
 311           <tbody>
 312           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 313             <td>
 314               <b>Release 0.17</b><br>
 315               <a href="archive/mono-0.17">Release notes</a><br>
 316               Dec 9th, 2002.
 317             </td>
 318             <td>
 319               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 320                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 321                   <td>
 322                     <b>Source Code</b>
 323                   </td>
 324                   <td>
 325                     <ul>
 326                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 327                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 328                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 329                     </ul>
 330                   </td>
 331                 </tr>
 332                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 333                   <td>
 334                      <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
 335                      (No RPMS for XSP).
 336                   </td>
 337                   <td>
 338                     <ul>
 339                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 340                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-2.src.rpm">mono-0.17-2.src.rpm</a>
 341                     </ul>
 342                   </td>
 343                 </tr>
 344                 <tr>
 345                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 346                     <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>\r
 347                     <ul>\r
 348                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>\r
 349                     </ul>\r
 350                   </td>\r
 351                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 352                     <b>Debian packages</b>\r
 353                     <ul>\r
 354                       <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
 355                     </ul>\r
 356                   </td>\r
 357                 </tr>
 358               </table>
 359             </td>
 360           </tr>
 361           </tr>
 362           </tbody>
 363         </table>
 364
 365         <table>
 366           <tbody>
 367           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 368             <td>
 369               <b>Release 0.16</b><br>
 370               <a href="archive/mono-0.16">Release notes</a><br>
 371               Oct 1st, 2002.
 372             </td>
 373             <td>
 374               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 375                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 376                   <td>
 377                     <b>Source Code</b>
 378                   </td>
 379                   <td>
 380                     <ul>
 381                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 382                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 383                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
 384                     </ul>
 385                   </td>
 386                 </tr>
 387                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 388                   <td>
 389                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 390                   </td>
 391                   <td>
 392                     <ul>
 393                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
 394                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-1.src.rpm">mono-0.16-1.src.rpm</a>
 395                     </ul>
 396                   </td>
 397                 </tr>
 398                 <tr>
 399                  <td></td>
 400                 </tr>
 401                 <tr>
 402                   <td bgcolor="#999999">
 403                     <b>Linux s390</b>
 404                     <ul>
 405                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 406                         <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
 407                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 408                         <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
 409                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 410                         <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
 411                     </ul>
 412                   </td>
 413                 </tr>
 414               </table>
 415             </td>
 416           </tr>
 417           <tr>
 418           </tr>
 419           </tr>
 420           </tbody>
 421         </table>
 422
 423         <table>
 424           <tbody>
 425           <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
 426             <td>
 427               <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
 428               <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
 429               Aug 23rd, 2002.
 430             </td>
 431             <td>
 432               <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
 433                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 434                   <td>
 435                     <b>Source Code</b>
 436                   </td>
 437                   <td>
 438                     <ul>
 439                       <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
 440                       <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
 441                       <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
 442                     </ul>
 443                   </td>
 444                 </tr>
 445                 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
 446                   <td>
 447                      <b>Source RPMs</b>
 448                   </td>
 449                   <td>
 450                     <ul>
 451                         <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
 452                         <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
 453                     </ul>
 454                   </td>
 455                 </tr>
 456                 <tr>
 457                  <td></td>
 458                 </tr>
 459                 \r
 460                 <tr bgcolor="#999999">\r
 461                   <td>\r
 462                     <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>\r
 463                     <ul>\r
 464                       <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>\r
 465                     </ul>\r
 466                   </td>\r
 467                   <td bgcolor="#999999">\r
 468                     <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>\r
 469                     <ul>\r
 470                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 471                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 472                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 473                         <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>\r
 474                     </ul>\r
 475                   </td>\r
 476                 </tr>\r
 477               </table>
 478             </td>
 479           </tr>
 480           </tbody>
 481         </table>
 482
 483 ** Binaries for other platforms.
 484
 485         Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
 486
 487         <ul>
 488                 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
 489                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
 490         </ul>
 491
 492 * Snapshots
 493
 494 <a name="snapshots">
 495
 496         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
 497         the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
 498         Time).  These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
 499         snapshot of the tree.
 500
 501         The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
 502         Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
 503
 504 * Compiling the code
 505
 506         There are a number of ways of compiling Mono
 507
 508         <ul>
 509                 <li>From the <a href="#scripts">scripts</A>
 510
 511                 <LI><a href="#install">Manually</a> for the first time.
 512
 513                 <li>Manually, <a href="#upgrade">while upgrading</a> to CVS
 514         </ul>
 515
 516         (which is an easy way to get the latest CVS information)
 517
 518 <a name="scripts">
 519 * Compiling with scripts
 520
 521         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
 522         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
 523         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
 524         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
 525         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
 526         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
 527         the script, follow these simple steps:
 528
 529         <ul>
 530                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
 531                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 532                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
 533                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
 534                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
 535         </ul>
 536
 537         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
 538         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
 539         You should install these packages from your distribution or
 540         with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
 541         the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
 542
 543         The script will download required packages from
 544         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
 545         directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
 546         anonymous cvs;
 547         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 548         select a particular cvs server.
 549
 550 <a name="install">
 551 ** Building the software manually
 552
 553         You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
 554         href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
 555         <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 556
 557 *** Building on Linux
 558
 559         <ul>
 560                 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
 561                 <pre>
 562                 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
 563                 cd mono-X.XX
 564
 565                 </pre>
 566                 <p>
 567
 568                 Then configure, compile and install:
 569
 570                 <pre>
 571
 572                 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 573                 make
 574                 make install</pre>
 575
 576                 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
 577                 libraries.
 578
 579                 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
 580                 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
 581
 582                 <pre>
 583                 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
 584
 585                 cd mcs-X.XX
 586                 </pre>
 587
 588                 Then use the following command to compile and install:
 589
 590                 <pre>
 591
 592                 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
 593                 </pre>
 594
 595                 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
 596         </ul>
 597
 598
 599 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 600
 601 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 602
 603         <ul>
 604
 605                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 606
 607                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 608                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 609
 610                 * Change to the /usr/local directory
 611                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 612                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 613
 614         </ul>
 615         <ul>
 616
 617                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 618                 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 619                 </a>, untar the snapshot.
 620
 621                 * Change directories to "mcs".
 622
 623                 * Compile:
 624
 625                 <pre>
 626                 make
 627                 </pre>
 628         </ul>
 629
 630 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 631
 632         <ul>
 633
 634                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 635                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 636                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 637
 638                 * Change directories to "mono".
 639
 640                 * Configure, compile and install:
 641                 <pre>
 642                 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 643                 make
 644                 make install
 645                 </pre>
 646
 647         </ul>
 648
 649 * Software resources and notes
 650
 651                 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
 652
 653                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 654                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 655                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 656
 657                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 658                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 659                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 660                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 661
 662                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 663                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 664                   <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>
 665                   <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>
 666                   <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>
 667                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
 668                   <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>
 669                   <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>
 670
 671
 672                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 673                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 674                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 675                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 676                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 677                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 678                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 679
 680
 681         </ul>
 682
 683
 684 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 685
 686
 687         <ul>
 688
 689                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 690                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 691                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 692
 693                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 694                   (I had to change line 674 of
 695                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 696                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 697                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 698
 699 <pre>
 700 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 701 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 702 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 703 make
 704 make install
 705 </pre>
 706
 707                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 708                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 709                   the binary package available at <a
 710                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 711                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 712
 713
 714                 * Download, compile and install the
 715                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 716                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 717
 718         </ul>
 719
 720 <a name="upgrading">
 721 ** Upgrading
 722
 723         To upgrade your Mono installation from CVS, it is very
 724         important that you update your Mono and MCS modules from CVS
 725         at the same time.  Failure to do so might result in a
 726         problematic installation as the runtime and the class
 727         libraries will be out of sync.
 728
 729         Run the following commands to update your CVS tree (more
 730         details in <a href="ccvs.html">Cvs and Mono</a> and the <A
 731         href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS and Mono</a> pages).
 732
 733         <pre>
 734         (cd mono; cvs update -dP .)
 735         (cd mcs; cvs update -dP .)
 736         </pre>
 737
 738         Once you have updated your sources, remove any cached
 739         assemblies or old binaries from the Mono "runtime" directory,
 740         and then compile each component:
 741
 742         <pre>
 743         (cd mono/runtime; rm *exe *dll)
 744         (cd mono; make)
 745         (cd mcs; make)
 746         </pre>
 747
 748         Now you can install the result:
 749
 750         <pre>
 751         (cd mono; make install)
 752         </pre>
 753
 754         Notice that following the above procedure does not require you
 755         to manually install the software in the `mcs' directory, as
 756         the relevant files will be copied by the `mono' makefiles.