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