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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         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
  22         executables.
  23
  24 <a name="sources">
  25 *** Sources
  26
  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>
  31
  32 <a name=apr-24">
  33         <b>Mono 0.11</b>
  34
  35         New packaged versions of the Mono C# compiler and Mono runtime
  36         are now available.  The latest version is 0.11.
  37
  38         <ul>
  39                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Mono 0.11 release notes</a>
  40
  41                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">mcs-0.11.tar.gz</a>
  42                 Mono C# compiler
  43                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">mono-0.11.tar.gz</a>
  44                 Mono runtime
  45         </ul>
  46
  47 * Snapshots
  48
  49         Volunteers package up daily the sources:
  50
  51         <ul>
  52                 * <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono">Debian Linux</a>
  53                 * <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software">Red Hat Linux</a>
  54                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
  55         </ul>
  56
  57 <a name="snapshots">
  58         For up to date sources, it is recommended that you use the Mono
  59         source code from either the
  60         <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots</a> or
  61         the <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly
  62         snapshots are done every night at 10pm EST (Boston Time).
  63
  64         The nightly snapshots are not guaranteed to build, but most of the
  65         time they should.  They should give you a window to see what we are
  66         up to.
  67
  68         You can download the GNU make tools and the Cygwin environment from
  69         <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
  70
  71         You can download Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
  72         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
  73         msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
  74
  75         There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
  76         <a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
  77         href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
  78         These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
  79         (building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
  80         provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
  81         the script, follow these simple steps:
  82
  83         <ul>
  84                 * Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  85                 * Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
  86                 * Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
  87                 * Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
  88                 * run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
  89         </ul>
  90
  91         The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
  92         software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
  93         You should install these packages from your distribution or
  94         with the cygwin installer.
  95
  96         The script will download required packages from
  97         www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
  98         directory.  The cvs server chosen defaults to anonymous cvs;
  99         set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
 100         select a particular cvs server.
 101
 102 ** Mono Regression Test Suite
 103
 104         You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite <a
 105         href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
 106
 107 <a name="install">
 108 ** Building the software manually
 109
 110 *** Download the required software.
 111
 112         <ul>
 113
 114                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 115                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 116                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 117
 118                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 119                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 120                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 121                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 122
 123                 * Precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config packages (and
 124                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 125                   <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>
 126                   <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>
 127                   <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>
 128                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a>
 129                   <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>
 130                   <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>
 131
 132                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 133                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 134                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 135                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 136                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 137                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 138                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 139
 140
 141         </ul>
 142
 143
 144 *** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config libraries.
 145
 146         <ul>
 147
 148                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 149
 150                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 151                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 152
 153                 * Change to the <strong>/usr/local</strong> directory
 154                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 155                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 156
 157         </ul>
 158
 159 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 160
 161         <ul>
 162
 163                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 164                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 165                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 166
 167                 * Change directories to <strong>"mcs"</strong>.
 168
 169                 * Compile:
 170
 171 <pre>
 172 <strong>make windows</strong>
 173 </pre>
 174
 175         </ul>
 176
 177 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 178
 179         <ul>
 180
 181                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 182                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 183                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 184
 185                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 186
 187                 * Configure, compile and install:
 188
 189 <pre><strong>
 190 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 191 make
 192 make install
 193 </strong></pre>
 194
 195         </ul>
 196
 197 *** On Unix, to compile the mono runtime:
 198
 199         <ul>
 200
 201                 * Install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 202
 203                 * Install glib 1.3. You can download it
 204                   from <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">ftp.gtk.org</a>. Maybe you need
 205                   to modify your ACLOCAL_FLAGS for pkg-config, for example if
 206                   your install prefix is /usr/local:
 207 <pre>
 208 <strong>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"</strong>
 209 </pre>
 210
 211                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 212                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots
 213                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 214
 215                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 216
 217                 * Configure, compile and install:
 218 <pre><strong>
 219 ./configure
 220 make
 221 make install</strong>
 222 </pre>
 223         </ul>
 224
 225 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 1.3 and pkg-config from source:
 226
 227
 228         <ul>
 229
 230                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 231                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 232                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 233
 234                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 235                   (I had to change line 674 of
 236                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 237                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 238                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 239
 240 <pre><strong>
 241 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 242 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 243 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 244 make
 245 make install</strong>
 246 </pre>
 247
 248                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 249                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 250                   the binary package available at <a
 251                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 252                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 253
 254
 255                 * Download, compile and install the
 256                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/glib-1.3.12.tar.gz">
 257                   glib 1.3</a> from source.
 258
 259         </ul>
 260
 261
 262 <a name="oldreleases">
 263
 264 *** Old releases.
 265
 266         <ul>
 267
 268         <ul>
 269         <a name="mar-27">
 270         <b>Mono 0.10; March 27, 2002</b>
 271                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Mono 0.10 release notes</a>
 272                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">mcs-0.10.tar.gz</a>
 273                 Mono C# compiler
 274                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">mono-0.10.tar.gz</a>
 275                 Mono runtime
 276         </ul>
 277
 278         <ul>
 279         <a name="feb-22">
 280         <b>Mono 0.9; February 22, 2002</b>
 281                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9">Mono 0.9 release notes</a>
 282
 283                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">mcs-0.9.tar.gz</a>
 284                 Mono C# compiler
 285                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">mono-0.9.tar.gz</a>
 286                 Mono runtime
 287         </ul>
 288
 289                 <a name="feb-11">
 290                 <b>February 11, 2002</b>
 291                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">mcs-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 292                 Mono C# compiler
 293                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">mono-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 294                 Mono runtime
 295                 </ul>
 296
 297                 <a name="sep-18">
 298                 <b>September 18, 2001</b>
 299                 <ul>
 300                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz">mono-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.7 release.
 301                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz">mcs-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.7 release.
 302                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Release Notes.</a>
 303                 </ul>
 304
 305                 <a name="august-22">
 306                 <b>August 22, 2001</b>
 307                 <ul>
 308                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6.tar.gz">mono-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.6 release.
 309                 * <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.
 310                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6">Release Notes.</a>
 311                 </ul>
 312
 313
 314                 <a name="july-29">
 315                 <b>July 29, 2001</b>
 316                 <ul>
 317                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5.tar.gz">mono-0.5.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.5 release.
 318                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5">Release Notes.</a>
 319                 </ul>
 320
 321
 322                 <a name="july-22">
 323                 <b>July 22, 2001</b>
 324                 <ul>
 325                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 326                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-22-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 19</a>: CVS snapshot.
 327                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22">Release Notes.</a>
 328                 </ul>
 329
 330                 <a name="july-19">
 331                 <b>July 19th, 2001</b>
 332                 <ul>
 333                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 334                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-17-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 17</a>: CVS snapshot.
 335                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19">Release Notes.</a>
 336                 </ul>
 337
 338                 <a name="july-17">
 339                 <b>July 17th, 2001</b>
 340                 <ul>
 341                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 342                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-15-Jul-17-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 15</a>: CVS snapshot.
 343                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17">Release Notes.</a>
 344                 </ul>
 345
 346                 <a name="july-15">
 347                 <b>July 15th, 2001</b>
 348                 <ul>
 349                 * <a href="archive/mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 350                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4.tar.gz">mono-0.4.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 351                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4">Release Notes.</a>
 352                 </ul>
 353
 354                 <a name="july-14">
 355                 <b>July 14th, 2001</b>
 356                 <ul>
 357                 * <a href="archive/mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 358                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.3.tar.gz">mono-0.3.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 359                 </ul>
 360
 361                 <a name="july-8">
 362                 <b>July 8th, 2001</b>
 363
 364                 <ul>
 365                 * <a href="archive/mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 366                 * <a href="archive/mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 367                 </ul>
 368         </ul>
 369