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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 <a name="sources">
  14 *** Sources
  15
  16         Stay up to date on the Mono team's development using the
  17         <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-cvs-list">
  18         mono-cvs-list</a> mailing list.  The CVS source code can also
  19         be browsed <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=Mono#dirlist">here</a>
  20
  21 <a name="jun-7">
  22         <b>Mono 0.13</b>
  23
  24         New packaged versions of the Mono C# compiler and Mono runtime
  25         are now available.  The latest version is 0.13.
  26
  27         <ul>
  28                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.13">Mono 0.13 release notes</a>
  29
  30                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">mcs-0.13.tar.gz</a>
  31                 Mono C# compiler with class library source code.
  32
  33                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">mono-0.13.tar.gz</a>
  34                 Mono runtime.
  35         </ul>
  36
  37 * Snapshots
  38
  39         Volunteers package up daily the sources:
  40
  41         <ul>
  42                 * <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono">Debian Linux</a>
  43                 * <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software">Red Hat Linux</a>
  44                 * <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
  45         </ul>
  46
  47 <a name="snapshots">
  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).
  53
  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
  56         up to.
  57
  58         You can download the GNU make tools and the Cygwin environment from
  59         <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
  60
  61         You can download Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
  62         <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
  63         msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
  64
  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:
  72
  73         <ul>
  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)
  79         </ul>
  80
  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.
  85
  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.
  91
  92 ** Mono Regression Test Suite
  93
  94         You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite <a
  95         href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
  96
  97 <a name="install">
  98 ** Building the software manually
  99
 100 *** Download the required software.
 101
 102         <ul>
 103
 104                 * Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
 105                   <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 106                   msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.
 107
 108                 * Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
 109                   <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
 110                   Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 111                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
 112
 113                 * Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
 114                   their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
 115                   <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>
 116                   <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>
 117                   <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>
 118                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a>
 119                   <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>
 120                   <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>
 121
 122                 * Download the Mono source code from the
 123                   <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
 124                   the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
 125                   nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
 126                   Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every
 127                   night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
 128                   not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
 129
 130
 131         </ul>
 132
 133
 134 *** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
 135
 136         <ul>
 137
 138                 * Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.
 139
 140                 * Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
 141                   Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.
 142
 143                 * Change to the <strong>/usr/local</strong> directory
 144                   of your Cygwin installation.<br>
 145                   Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.
 146
 147         </ul>
 148
 149 *** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
 150
 151         <ul>
 152
 153                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 154                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 155                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 156
 157                 * Change directories to <strong>"mcs"</strong>.
 158
 159                 * Compile:
 160
 161 <pre>
 162 <strong>make windows</strong>
 163 </pre>
 164
 165         </ul>
 166
 167 *** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
 168
 169         <ul>
 170
 171                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 172                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
 173                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 174
 175                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 176
 177                 * Configure, compile and install:
 178
 179 <pre><strong>
 180 ./configure --prefix=c:/mono
 181 make
 182 make install
 183 </strong></pre>
 184
 185         </ul>
 186
 187 *** On Unix, to compile the mono runtime:
 188
 189         <ul>
 190
 191                 * Install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a>.
 192
 193                 * Install glib 2.0. You can download it
 194                   from <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp.gtk.org</a>. Maybe you need
 195                   to modify your ACLOCAL_FLAGS for pkg-config, for example if
 196                   your install prefix is /usr/local:
 197 <pre>
 198 <strong>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"</strong>
 199 </pre>
 200
 201                 * If you downloaded the Mono
 202                   <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots
 203                   </a>, untar the snapshot.
 204
 205                 * Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.
 206
 207                 * Configure, compile and install:
 208 <pre><strong>
 209 ./configure
 210 make
 211 make install</strong>
 212 </pre>
 213         </ul>
 214
 215 *** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
 216
 217
 218         <ul>
 219
 220                 * Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
 221                   autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
 222                   `make maintainer-clean' after the update).
 223
 224                 * Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
 225                   (I had to change line 674 of
 226                   <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from
 227                   <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
 228                   <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.
 229
 230 <pre><strong>
 231 tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
 232 cd pkg-config-0.8.0
 233 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 234 make
 235 make install</strong>
 236 </pre>
 237
 238                 * Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
 239                   If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
 240                   the binary package available at <a
 241                   href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
 242                   http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.
 243
 244
 245                 * Download, compile and install the
 246                   <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
 247                   glib 2.0</a> from source.
 248
 249         </ul>
 250
 251
 252 <a name="oldreleases">
 253
 254 *** Old releases.
 255
 256         <ul>
 257
 258         <ul>
 259         <a name="apr-24">
 260         <b>Mono 0.11; April 24, 2002</b>
 261                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Mono 0.11 release notes</a>
 262
 263                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">mcs-0.11.tar.gz</a>
 264                 Mono C# compiler
 265                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">mono-0.11.tar.gz</a>
 266                 Mono runtime
 267         </ul>
 268
 269         <ul>
 270         <a name="mar-27">
 271         <b>Mono 0.10; March 27, 2002</b>
 272                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Mono 0.10 release notes</a>
 273                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">mcs-0.10.tar.gz</a>
 274                 Mono C# compiler
 275                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">mono-0.10.tar.gz</a>
 276                 Mono runtime
 277         </ul>
 278
 279         <ul>
 280         <a name="feb-22">
 281         <b>Mono 0.9; February 22, 2002</b>
 282                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9">Mono 0.9 release notes</a>
 283
 284                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">mcs-0.9.tar.gz</a>
 285                 Mono C# compiler
 286                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">mono-0.9.tar.gz</a>
 287                 Mono runtime
 288         </ul>
 289
 290                 <a name="feb-11">
 291                 <b>February 11, 2002</b>
 292                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">mcs-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 293                 Mono C# compiler
 294                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">mono-0.8.tar.gz</a>
 295                 Mono runtime
 296                 </ul>
 297
 298                 <a name="sep-18">
 299                 <b>September 18, 2001</b>
 300                 <ul>
 301                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz">mono-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.7 release.
 302                 * <a href="archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz">mcs-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.7 release.
 303                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Release Notes.</a>
 304                 </ul>
 305
 306                 <a name="august-22">
 307                 <b>August 22, 2001</b>
 308                 <ul>
 309                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6.tar.gz">mono-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.6 release.
 310                 * <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.
 311                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.6">Release Notes.</a>
 312                 </ul>
 313
 314
 315                 <a name="july-29">
 316                 <b>July 29, 2001</b>
 317                 <ul>
 318                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5.tar.gz">mono-0.5.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.5 release.
 319                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.5">Release Notes.</a>
 320                 </ul>
 321
 322
 323                 <a name="july-22">
 324                 <b>July 22, 2001</b>
 325                 <ul>
 326                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 327                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-22-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 19</a>: CVS snapshot.
 328                 * <a href="archive/mcs-22">Release Notes.</a>
 329                 </ul>
 330
 331                 <a name="july-19">
 332                 <b>July 19th, 2001</b>
 333                 <ul>
 334                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 335                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-17-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 17</a>: CVS snapshot.
 336                 * <a href="archive/mcs-19">Release Notes.</a>
 337                 </ul>
 338
 339                 <a name="july-17">
 340                 <b>July 17th, 2001</b>
 341                 <ul>
 342                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 343                 * <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-15-Jul-17-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 15</a>: CVS snapshot.
 344                 * <a href="archive/mcs-17">Release Notes.</a>
 345                 </ul>
 346
 347                 <a name="july-15">
 348                 <b>July 15th, 2001</b>
 349                 <ul>
 350                 * <a href="archive/mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 351                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4.tar.gz">mono-0.4.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 352                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.4">Release Notes.</a>
 353                 </ul>
 354
 355                 <a name="july-14">
 356                 <b>July 14th, 2001</b>
 357                 <ul>
 358                 * <a href="archive/mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
 359                 * <a href="archive/mono-0.3.tar.gz">mono-0.3.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
 360                 </ul>
 361
 362                 <a name="july-8">
 363                 <b>July 8th, 2001</b>
 364
 365                 <ul>
 366                 * <a href="archive/mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 367                 * <a href="archive/mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
 368                 </ul>
 369         </ul>
 370