X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d4f3e921c67aa8807f6efbeabc2a73922d77aa7c;hb=751bc066dedb3b2e9cca04bd770547284b990bd6;hp=c4c7a2ce800f3f7750ce5dc34fceb3cfc554c824;hpb=224201b132522a7df53a2759c3b445526dc2c212;p=mono.git diff --git a/README b/README index c4c7a2ce800..d4f3e921c67 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ This is Mono. 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 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ This is Mono. 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: @@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ This is Mono. --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 @@ -260,6 +264,19 @@ This is Mono. Whether you want to build libraries that are still not completed (The 2.0 APIs). It defaults to `yes'. + --with-moonlight=yes,no + + 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 Silvelright modified assemblies (mscorlib.dll, + System.dll, System.Code.dll and System.Xml.Core.dll) and turn + on the LINQ extensions for the compiler. + + This option defaults to `no' and it is considered pre-alpha. + --with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling, This is used to configure where should Mono look for @@ -275,6 +292,16 @@ This is Mono. 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 @@ -398,6 +425,11 @@ This is Mono. 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. @@ -407,3 +439,9 @@ This is Mono. 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.