[1] Building mono + mcs from CVS on *NIX. The Easy Way (tm) ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Get mono and mcs from CVS (http://www.go-mono.com/download.html) 2. Use the script to build mono (mono/doc/mono-build.sh). 3. Copy the dlls and mcs.exe from the latest monocharge tarball (http://www.gotmono.com/sapians/jackson to /where/you/installed/mono/lib and ..../bin respectively. [2] Keeping the stuff up to date ---------------------------------- Once you have followed the above steps, do these ones to keep your installation up to date: 1. In mcs directory, cvs -z3 update -Pd make -f makefile.gnu 2. Use the mono-build.sh script to update, rebuild and install mono from CVS. Doing a cvs update of mono/doc/mono-build.sh file is also a good idea. 3. In mcs directory: make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/prefix/of/your/installation/path 4. In case of troubles (ie, unable to compile mcs/* sources) go to [1]. -Gonzalo