1. Compilation and Installation
===============================
+ a. Build Requirements
+ ---------------------
+
+ To build Mono, you will need the following components:
+
+ * pkg-config
+
+ Available from: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/pkgconfig
+
+ * glib 2.4
+
+ Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
+
+ Optional dependencies:
+
+ * libgdiplus
+
+ If you want to get support for System.Drawing, you will need to get
+ Libgdiplus.
+
+ b. Building the Software
+ ------------------------
+
If you obtained this package as an officially released tarball,
this is very simple, use configure and make:
make
make install
+ Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, S/390, AMD64 and PowerPC systems.
+
If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
- Mono installation. To upgrade your installation do:
+ Mono installation. To upgrade your installation, unpack both
+ mono and mcs:
+
+ tar xzf mcs-XXXX.tar.gz
+ tar xzf mono-XXXX.tar.gz
+ mv mono-XXX mono
+ mv mcs-XXX mcs
+ cd mono
+ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
+ make
+
+ c. Building the software from SVN
+ ---------------------------------
+
+ If you are building the software from SVN, make sure that you
+ have up-to-date mcs and mono sources:
+
+ svn co svn+ssh://USER@mono-cvs.ximian.com/source/trunk/mono
+ svn co svn+ssh://USER@mono-cvs.ximian.com/source/trunk/mcs
+
+ Then, go into the mono directory, and configure:
+
+ cd mono
+ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
+ make
+
+ This will automatically go into the mcs/ tree and build the
+ binaries there.
+
+ This assumes that you have a working mono installation, and that
+ there's a C# compiler named 'mcs', and a corresponding IL
+ runtime called 'mono'. You can use two make variables
+ EXTERNAL_MCS and EXTERNAL_RUNTIME to override these. e.g., you
+ can say
+
+ make EXTERNAL_MCS=/foo/bar/mcs EXTERNAL_RUNTIME=/somewhere/else/mono
+
+ If you don't have a working Mono installation
+ ---------------------------------------------
+
+ If you don't have a working Mono installation, an obvious choice
+ is to install the latest released packages of 'mono' for your
+ distribution and try from the beginning.
+
+ You can also try a slightly more risky approach that should work
+ almost all the time.
+
+ This works by first getting the latest version of the 'monolite'
+ distribution, which contains just enough to run the 'mcs'
+ compiler. You do this with:
- ./autogen --prefix=/usr/local
- make fullbuild
+ make get-monolite-latest
+
+ This will download and automatically gunzip and untar the
+ tarball, and place the files appropriately so that you can then
+ just run:
+
+ make
+
+ To ensure that you're using the 'monolite' distribution, you can
+ 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:
+
+ make check
+
+ All tests should pass.
+
+ If you want more extensive tests, including those that test the
+ class libraries, you need to re-run 'configure' with the
+ '--enable-nunit-tests' flag, and try
+
+ make -k check
+
+ Expect to find a few testsuite failures. As a sanity check, you
+ can compare the failures you got with
+
+ http://go-mono.com/tests/displayTestResults.php
+
+ You can now install mono with:
+
+ make install
+
+ Failure to follow these steps may result in a broken installation.
2. Using Mono
=============
====================
doc/
- Contains documentation and the web site contents.
+ Contains the web site contents.
+
+ docs/
+ Technical documents about the Mono runtime.
+
+ data/
+ Configuration files installed as part of the Mono runtime.
mono/
The core of the Mono Runtime.
arch/
Architecture specific portions.
+ man/
+
+ Manual pages for the various Mono commands and programs.
+
+ scripts/
+
+ Scripts used to invoke Mono and the corresponding program.
+
+ runtime/
+ A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
+ mono/ and mcs/ build systems.
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