1 * Software Availability
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.
9 The software is also available on the `Mono' channel in <a href="http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet/">Red Carpet</a>.
12 href="http://www.go-mono.org/mono-beginning.html">Resources/Beginning
14 href="http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html">FAQ</a>.
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20 <b>Release 0.18</b><br>
21 <a href="archive/mono-0.17">Release notes</a><br>
25 <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
26 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
32 <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.18.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
33 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18.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-0.2.tar.gz">XSP web server</a> <b><font color="#dd0000">New!</font></b>
39 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
41 <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
46 <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
47 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.18-1.src.rpm">mono-0.18-1.src.rpm</a>
55 <td bgcolor="#999999">
56 <b>Red Hat 7.3/x86</b>
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-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
61 <li><a href="archive/redhat-73-i386/mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
64 <td bgcolor="#999999">
65 <b>Red Hat 7.2/x86</b>
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-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
70 <li><a href="archive/redhat-72-i386/mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
75 <td bgcolor="#999999">
76 <b>Red Hat 7.1/x86</b>
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-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
81 <li><a href="archive/redhat-71-i386/mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
84 <td bgcolor="#999999">
85 <b>Mandrake 8.2/x86</b>
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-0.18-1.i586.rpm">mono-0.18-1.i586.rpm</a>
90 <li><a href="archive/mandrake-82-i386/mono-devel-0.18-1.i586.rpm">mono-devel-0.18-1.i586.rpm</a>
95 <td bgcolor="#999999">
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-0.17-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.17-1.i386.rpm</a>
101 <li><a href="archive/suse-80-i386/mono-devel-0.17-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.17-1.i386.rpm</a>
104 <td bgcolor="#999999">
105 <b>Red Hat 8.0/x86</b>
107 <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
108 <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1-1.i386.rpm</a>
109 <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
110 <li><a href="archive/redhat-80-i386/mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.18-1.i386.rpm</a>
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116 <!-- <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>
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118 <!-- <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>
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122 <!-- <b>Debian packages</b>
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124 <!-- <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a> -->
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134 <b>Regression Tests</b><br>
137 You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
138 Suite <a href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
149 We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
153 <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
155 <b>Release 0.17</b><br>
156 <a href="archive/mono-0.17">Release notes</a><br>
160 <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
161 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
167 <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
168 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
169 <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
173 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
175 <b>Source RPMs</b><br>
180 <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
181 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-2.src.rpm">mono-0.17-2.src.rpm</a>
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187 <b>Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)</b>
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189 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.17-stable.exe">Mono-Setup</a>
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192 <td bgcolor="#999999">
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193 <b>Debian packages</b>
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195 <li><a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp's web site</a>
208 <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
210 <b>Release 0.16</b><br>
211 <a href="archive/mono-0.16">Release notes</a><br>
215 <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
216 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
222 <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
223 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
224 <li><a href="archive/gc6.1.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1</a>
228 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
234 <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1-1.src.rpm</a>
235 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.16-1.src.rpm">mono-0.16-1.src.rpm</a>
243 <td bgcolor="#999999">
246 <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
247 <li><a href="archive/s390/glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm">glib2-devel-2.0.6-13.s390.rpm</a>
248 p <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
249 <li><a href="archive/s390/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.s390.rpm</a>
250 <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
251 <li><a href="archive/s390/mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm">mono-devel-0.16-1.s390.rpm</a>
266 <tr bgcolor="#DDDDDD">
268 <b>Release 0.15</b><br>
269 <a href="archive/mono-0.15">Release notes</a><br>
273 <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
274 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
280 <li><a href="archive/mcs-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Class Libraries and C# Compiler.</a>
281 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15.tar.gz">Mono Runtime</a>
282 <li><a href="archive/gc6.1alpha5.tar.gz">Boehm GC 6.1alpha5</a>
286 <tr bgcolor="#BBBBBB">
292 <li><a href="archive/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.src.rpm</a>
293 <li><a href="archive/mono-0.15-1.src.rpm">mono-0.15-1.src.rpm</a>
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303 <b>Windows (win95 friendly)</b>
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305 <li><a href="archive/mono-w32-Aug_28_2002.zip">Mono-w32</a>
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309 <b>Red Hat null-8.0/x86</b>
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311 <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
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312 <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm">libgc-devel-6.1alpha5-1.i386.rpm</a>
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313 <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
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314 <li><a href="archive/redhat-null-i386/mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm">mono-devel-0.15-1.i386.rpm</a>
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324 ** Binaries for other platforms.
326 Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
329 * <a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/">DebianPlanet</a>
330 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
337 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">Nightly snapshots</a> of
338 the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
339 Time). These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
340 snapshot of the tree.
342 The <a href="anoncvs.html">anoncvs</a> mirrors provided by
343 Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
347 There are a number of ways of compiling Mono
350 <li>From the <a href="#scripts">scripts</A>
352 <LI><a href="#install">Manually</a> for the first time.
354 <li>Manually, <a href="#upgrade">while upgrading</a> to CVS
357 (which is an easy way to get the latest CVS information)
360 * Compiling with scripts
362 There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows. Get
363 <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
364 href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
365 These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
366 (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
367 provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.) To use
368 the script, follow these simple steps:
371 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
372 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
373 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
374 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
375 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
378 The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
379 software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
380 You should install these packages from your distribution or
381 with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
382 the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
384 The script will download required packages from
385 www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
386 directory. <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to
388 set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
389 select a particular cvs server.
392 ** Building the software manually
394 You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: <a
395 href="http://www.gtk.org">glib 2.x</a> and
396 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
398 *** Building on Linux
401 Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
403 tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
409 Then configure, compile and install:
413 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
417 This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
420 If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
421 follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
424 tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
429 Then use the following command to compile and install:
433 make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
436 You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
440 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
442 **** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
446 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
448 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
449 Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
451 * Change to the /usr/local directory
452 of your Cygwin installation.<br>
453 Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
458 * If you downloaded the Mono
459 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
460 </a>, untar the snapshot.
462 * Change directories to "mcs".
471 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
475 * If you downloaded the Mono
476 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
477 </a>, untar the snapshot.
479 * Change directories to "mono".
481 * Configure, compile and install:
483 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
490 * Software resources and notes
492 The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
494 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
495 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
496 msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
498 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
499 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
500 Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
501 autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
503 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
504 their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
505 <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>
506 <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>
507 <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>
508 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a> <br>
509 <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>
510 <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>
513 * Download the Mono source code from the
514 <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
515 the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
516 nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
517 Anonymous CVS</a>. The nightly snapshots are done every
518 night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
519 not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
525 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
530 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
531 autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
532 `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
534 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
535 (I had to change line 674 of
536 <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
537 <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
538 <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
541 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
543 ./configure --prefix=/usr
548 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
549 If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
550 the binary package available at <a
551 href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
552 http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
555 * Download, compile and install the
556 <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
557 glib 2.0</a> from source.
564 To upgrade your Mono installation from CVS, it is very
565 important that you update your Mono and MCS modules from CVS
566 at the same time. Failure to do so might result in a
567 problematic installation as the runtime and the class
568 libraries will be out of sync.
570 Run the following commands to update your CVS tree (more
571 details in <a href="ccvs.html">Cvs and Mono</a> and the <A
572 href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS and Mono</a> pages).
575 (cd mono; cvs update -dP .)
576 (cd mcs; cvs update -dP .)
579 Once you have updated your sources, remove any cached
580 assemblies or old binaries from the Mono "runtime" directory,
581 and then compile each component:
584 (cd mono/runtime; rm *exe *dll)
589 Now you can install the result:
592 (cd mono; make install)
595 Notice that following the above procedure does not require you
596 to manually install the software in the `mcs' directory, as
597 the relevant files will be copied by the `mono' makefiles.