make
make install
- Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64, ARM
- and PowerPC systems.
+ Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390,
+ S/390x, AMD64, ARM and PowerPC systems.
If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
Mono installation. To upgrade your installation, unpack both
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
+ The Mono build system is silent for most compilation commands.
+ To enable a more verbose compile (for example, to pinpoint
+ problems in your makefiles or your system) pass the V=1 flag to make, like this:
+
+ make V=1
+
+
+
c. Building the software from SVN
---------------------------------
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
+ For people with non-standard installations of the auto* utils and of
+ pkg-config (common on misconfigured OSX and windows boxes), you could get
+ an error like this:
+
+ ./configure: line 19176: syntax error near unexpected token `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(BASE_DEPENDENCIES,' ...
+
+ This means that you need to set the ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment var
+ when invoking autogen.sh, like this:
+
+ ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $acprefix/share/aclocal" ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/loca
+
+ where $acprefix is the prefix where aclocal has been installed.
+
This will automatically go into the mcs/ tree and build the
binaries there.
also try passing EXTERNAL_MCS=false on the make command-line.
Testing and Installation
- ------------------------
+ ------------------------
You can run (part of) the mono and mcs testsuites with the command:
--with-sigaltstack=yes,no
+ Experimental: Use at your own risk, it is known to
+ cause problems with garbage collection and is hard to
+ reproduce those bugs.
+
This controls whether Mono will install a special
signal handler to handle stack overflows. If set to
"yes", it will turn stack overflows into the
systems do not support this feature, or you might want
to override the auto-detection.
- --with-static-mono=yes,no
+ --with-static_mono=yes,no
This controls whether `mono' should link against a
static library (libmono.a) or a shared library
This defaults to `yes'.
- --with-preview=yes,no
+ --with-profile2=yes,no
+
+ Whether you want to build the 2.x libraries (support
+ for Generics and the 2.0/3.5 APIS).
+
+ It defaults to `yes'.
+
+ --with-moonlight=yes,no
- Whether you want to build libraries that are still not
- completed (The 2.0 APIs). It defaults to `yes'.
+ Whether you want to generate the Silverlight/Moonlight
+ libraries and toolchain in addition to the default
+ (1.1 and 2.0 APIs).
+
+ This will produce the `smcs' compiler which will reference
+ the Silverlight modified assemblies (mscorlib.dll,
+ System.dll, System.Code.dll and System.Xml.Core.dll) and turn
+ on the LINQ extensions for the compiler.
--with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling,<path>
Or you can specify a path to a libgdiplus.
+ --disable-shared-memory
+
+ Use this option to disable the use of shared memory in
+ Mono (this is equivalent to setting the MONO_DISABLE_SHM
+ environment variable, although this removes the feature
+ completely).
+
+ Disabling the shared memory support will disable certain
+ features like cross-process named mutexes.
+
--enable-minimal=LIST
Use this feature to specify optional runtime
Disables support for the Ahead of Time
compilation.
- profiler:
- Disables support for the default profiler.
+ attach:
+ Support for the Mono.Management assembly and the
+ VMAttach API (allowing code to be injected into
+ a target VM)
+
+ com:
+ Disables COM support.
+
+ debug:
+ Drop debugging support.
decimal:
Disables support for System.Decimal.
+ full_messages:
+ By default Mono comes with a full table
+ of messages for error codes. This feature
+ turns off uncommon error messages and reduces
+ the runtime size.
+
+ generics:
+ Generics support. Disabling this will not
+ allow Mono to run any 2.0 libraries or
+ code that contains generics.
+
+ jit:
+ Removes the JIT engine from the build, this reduces
+ the executable size, and requires that all code
+ executed by the virtual machine be compiled with
+ Full AOT before execution.
+
+ large_code:
+ Disables support for large assemblies.
+
+ logging:
+ Disables support for debug logging.
+
pinvoke:
Support for Platform Invocation services,
disabling this will drop support for any
libraries using DllImport.
- debug:
- Drop debugging support.
+ portability:
+ Removes support for MONO_IOMAP, the environment
+ variables for simplifying porting applications that
+ are case-insensitive and that mix the Unix and Windows path separators.
+
+ profiler:
+ Disables support for the default profiler.
reflection_emit:
Drop System.Reflection.Emit support
- large_code:
- Disables support for large assemblies.
+ reflection_emit_save:
+ Drop support for saving dynamically created
+ assemblies (AssemblyBuilderAccess.Save) in
+ System.Reflection.Emit.
- logging:
- Disables support for debug logging.
+ shadow_copy:
+ Disables support for AppDomain's shadow copies
+ (you can disable this if you do not plan on
+ using appdomains).
- com:
- Disables COM support.
+ simd:
+ Disables support for the Mono.SIMD intrinsics
+ library.
ssa:
Disables compilation for the SSA optimization
framework, and the various SSA-based
optimizations.
- generics:
- Generics support. Disabling this will not
- allow Mono to run any 2.0 libraries or
- code that contains generics.
-
+ --enable-big-arrays
+
+ This enables the use arrays whose indexes are larger
+ than Int32.MaxValue.
+
+ By default Mono has the same limitation as .NET on
+ Win32 and Win64 and limits array indexes to 32-bit
+ values (even on 64-bit systems).
+
+ In certain scenarios where large arrays are required,
+ you can pass this flag and Mono will be built to
+ support 64-bit arrays.
+
+ This is not the default as it breaks the C embedding
+ ABI that we have exposed through the Mono development
+ cycle.
+
+ --enable-parallel-mark
+
+ Use this option to enable the garbage collector to use
+ multiple CPUs to do its work. This helps performance
+ on multi-CPU machines as the work is divided across CPUS.
+
+ This option is not currently the default as we have
+ not done much testing with Mono.
+
+ --enable-dtrace
+
+ On Solaris and MacOS X builds a version of the Mono
+ runtime that contains DTrace probes and can
+ participate in the system profiling using DTrace.
+
+
--disable-dev-random
Mono uses /dev/random to obtain good random data for
Manual pages for the various Mono commands and programs.
+ samples/
+
+ Some simple sample programs on uses of the Mono
+ runtime as an embedded library.
+
scripts/
Scripts used to invoke Mono and the corresponding program.
A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
mono/ and mcs/ build systems.
+ ../olive/
+
+ If the directory ../olive is present (as an
+ independent checkout) from the Mono module, that
+ directory is automatically configured to share the
+ same prefix than this module gets.
+