[xbuild] ResolveAssemblyReference - add missing api.

[mono.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -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
 
@@ -74,15 +72,18 @@ This is Mono.
                 make V=1
 
 
-
-    c. Building the software from SVN
+    c. Building the software from GIT
     ---------------------------------
 
-       If you are building the software from SVN, make sure that you
+       If you are building the software from GIT, 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
+          If you are an anonymous user:
+               git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git
+
+           If you are a Mono contributors with read/write privileges:
+               git clone git@github.com:mono/mono.git
+
 
        Then, go into the mono directory, and configure:
 
@@ -129,16 +130,16 @@ This is Mono.
        distribution, which contains just enough to run the 'mcs'
        compiler.  You do this with:
 
+               # Run the following line after ./autogen.sh
                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
+               make EXTERNAL_MCS=${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe
 
-       To ensure that you're using the 'monolite' distribution, you can
-       also try passing EXTERNAL_MCS=false on the make command-line.
+       And that will use the files downloaded by 'make get-monolite-latest.
 
        Testing and Installation
        ------------------------
@@ -164,10 +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:
@@ -301,6 +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
@@ -473,6 +492,15 @@ This is Mono.
                There are a number of runtime options to control this
                also, see the man page.
 
+       --enable-nacl
+
+               This configures the Mono compiler to generate code
+               suitable to be used by Google's Native Client:
+
+                        http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
+
+               Currently this is used with Mono's AOT engine as
+               Native Client does not support JIT engines yet.
 
 2. Using Mono
 =============