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 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.
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>.
19 When installing Cygwin, don't forget to include
20 <tt>mingw-runtime</tt>. If you omit this, you will encounter
21 configure problems regarding not being able to generate
27 Stay up to date on the Mono team's development using the
28 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-cvs-list">
29 mono-cvs-list</a> mailing list. The CVS source code can also
30 be browsed <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mcs/mcs/cfold.cs?cvsroot=Mono">here</a>
35 New packaged versions of the Mono C# compiler and Mono runtime
36 are now available. The latest version is 0.9.
39 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9">Mono 0.9 release notes</a>
41 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">mcs-0.9.tar.gz</a>
43 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">mono-0.9.tar.gz</a>
48 For up to date sources, it is recommended that you use the Mono
49 source code from either the
50 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots</a> or
51 the <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a>. The nightly
52 snapshots are done every night at 10pm EST (Boston Time).
54 The nightly snapshots are not guaranteed to build, but most of the
55 time they should. They should give you a window to see what we are
58 You can download the GNU make tools and the Cygwin environment from
59 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
61 You can download Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
62 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
63 msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
65 There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows. Get
66 <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
67 href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
68 These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
69 (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
70 provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.) To use
71 the script, follow these simple steps:
74 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
75 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
76 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
77 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
78 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
81 The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
82 software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
83 You should install these packages from your distribution or
84 with the cygwin installer.
86 The script will download required packages from
87 www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
88 directory. The cvs server chosen defaults to anonymous cvs;
89 set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
90 select a particular cvs server.
93 ** Building the software manually
95 *** Download the required software.
99 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
100 <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
101 msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
103 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
104 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
105 Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
106 autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
108 * Precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config packages (and
109 their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
110 <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>
111 <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>
112 <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>
113 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a>
114 <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>
115 <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>
117 * Download the Mono source code from the
118 <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
119 the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
120 nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
121 Anonymous CVS</a>. The nightly snapshots are done every
122 night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
123 not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
129 *** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config libraries.
133 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
135 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
136 Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
138 * Change to the <strong>/usr/local</strong> directory
139 of your Cygwin installation.<br>
140 Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
144 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
148 * If you downloaded the Mono
149 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
150 </a>, untar the snapshot.
152 * Change directories to <strong>"mcs"</strong>.
157 <strong>make windows</strong>
162 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
166 * If you downloaded the Mono
167 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
168 </a>, untar the snapshot.
170 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
172 * Configure, compile and install:
175 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
182 *** On Unix, to compile the mono runtime:
186 * Install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
188 * Install glib 1.3. You can download it
189 from <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">ftp.gtk.org</a>. Maybe you need
190 to modify your ACLOCAL_FLAGS for pkg-config, for example if
191 your install prefix is /usr/local:
193 <strong>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"</strong>
196 * If you downloaded the Mono
197 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots
198 </a>, untar the snapshot.
200 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
202 * Configure, compile and install:
206 make install</strong>
210 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config from source:
215 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
216 autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
217 `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
219 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
220 (I had to change line 674 of
221 <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
222 <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
223 <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
226 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
228 ./configure --prefix=/usr
230 make install</strong>
233 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
234 If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
235 the binary package available at <a
236 href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
237 http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
240 * Download, compile and install the
241 <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">
242 glib 1.3</a> from source.
247 <a name="oldreleases">
249 *** Very old releases.
253 <b>February 11, 2002</b>
254 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">mcs-0.8.tar.gz</a>
256 * <a href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">mono-0.8.tar.gz</a>
261 <b>September 18, 2001</b>
263 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz">mono-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.7 release.
264 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz">mcs-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.7 release.
265 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Release Notes.</a>
269 <b>August 22, 2001</b>
271 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6.tar.gz">mono-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.6 release.
272 * <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.
273 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6">Release Notes.</a>
280 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5.tar.gz">mono-0.5.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.5 release.
281 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5">Release Notes.</a>
288 * <a href="archive/mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
289 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-22-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 19</a>: CVS snapshot.
290 * <a href="archive/mcs-22">Release Notes.</a>
294 <b>July 19th, 2001</b>
296 * <a href="archive/mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
297 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-17-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 17</a>: CVS snapshot.
298 * <a href="archive/mcs-19">Release Notes.</a>
302 <b>July 17th, 2001</b>
304 * <a href="archive/mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
305 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-15-Jul-17-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 15</a>: CVS snapshot.
306 * <a href="archive/mcs-17">Release Notes.</a>
310 <b>July 15th, 2001</b>
312 * <a href="archive/mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
313 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4.tar.gz">mono-0.4.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
314 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4">Release Notes.</a>
318 <b>July 14th, 2001</b>
320 * <a href="archive/mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
321 * <a href="archive/mono-0.3.tar.gz">mono-0.3.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
325 <b>July 8th, 2001</b>
328 * <a href="archive/mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
329 * <a href="archive/mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot