[xbuild] Add support for multi-targeting arbitrary frameworks.

[mono.git] / README

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@@ -11,16 +11,6 @@ This is Mono.
    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/
-
        On Itanium, you must obtain libunwind:
 
                http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/libunwind/download.php4
@@ -35,7 +25,15 @@ This is Mono.
                * libgdiplus
 
                  If you want to get support for System.Drawing, you will need to get
-                 Libgdiplus.
+                 Libgdiplus.    This library in turn requires glib and pkg-config:
+
+                       * pkg-config
+
+                         Available from: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/pkgconfig
+
+                       * glib 2.4
+
+                         Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
 
                * libzlib
 
@@ -74,7 +72,6 @@ This is Mono.
                 make V=1
 
 
-
     c. Building the software from GIT
     ---------------------------------
 
@@ -168,10 +165,13 @@ This is Mono.
 
                make install
 
+       You can verify your installation by using the mono-test-install
+       script, it can diagnose some common problems with Mono's install.
+
        Failure to follow these steps may result in a broken installation. 
 
-    d. Common Configuration Options
-    -------------------------------
+    d. Configuration Options
+    ------------------------
 
        The following are the configuration options that someone
        building Mono might want to use:
@@ -305,6 +305,21 @@ This is Mono.
                System.dll, System.Code.dll and System.Xml.Core.dll) and turn
                on the LINQ extensions for the compiler.
 
+       --with-moon-gc=boehm,sgen
+
+               Select the GC to use for Moonlight.
+
+               boehm:
+                       Selects the Boehm Garbage Collector, with the same flags
+                       as the regular Mono build. This is the default.
+
+               sgen:
+                       Selects the new SGen Garbage Collector, which provides
+                       Generational GC support, using the same flags as the
+                       mono-sgen build.
+
+               This defaults to `boehm'.
+
        --with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling,<path>
 
                This is used to configure where should Mono look for
@@ -570,3 +585,4 @@ This is Mono.
                directory is automatically configured to share the
                same prefix than this module gets.
 
+