* Software Availability
The Virtual Execution System is available in package `mono'.
Currently this contains a metadata library and the
disassembler. Please refer to our Runtime description for more details
on this part of the project.
The software is also available on the `Mono' channel in Red Carpet.
Some useful links: Resources/Beginning
section, the FAQ.
Release 0.23
Release notes
March 5, 2003
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Source Code
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Red Hat 7.3/x86
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Red Hat 7.2/x86
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Red Hat 7.1/x86
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Mandrake 8.2/x86
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SuSE 8.0/x86
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Red Hat 8.0/x86
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Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)
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Linux S/390
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Regression Tests
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You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
Suite here
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* Older Releases:
We provide binaries for older releases until we have packages for the new release.
Release 0.22
Release notes
March 5, 2003
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)
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Regression Tests
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You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
Suite here
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Release 0.21
Release notes
Feb 27th, 2003
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Debian packages
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Regression Tests
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You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
Suite here
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Release 0.20
Release notes
Feb 20th, 2003
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Red Hat 8.0/x86
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Debian packages
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Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)
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Regression Tests
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You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test
Suite here
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Release 0.19
Release notes
Jan 20th, 2003
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Release 0.18
Release notes
Jan 12th, 2003
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Release 0.17
Release notes
Dec 9th, 2002.
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Source Code
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Source RPMs
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Windows Setup Wizard (NT/2000/XP)
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Debian packages
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Release 0.16
Release notes
Oct 1st, 2002.
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Source Code
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Linux s390
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Release 0.15
Release notes
Aug 23rd, 2002.
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Windows (win95 friendly)
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Red Hat null-8.0/x86
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* Binaries for other platforms.
Already daily volunteer's made binaries:
* Snapshots
Nightly snapshots of
the CVS repository are made every day at 10pm EST (Boston
Time). These are not guaranteed to build, they are just a
snapshot of the tree.
The anoncvs mirrors provided by
Hispalinux are updated every six hours.
* Compiling the code
There are a number of ways of compiling Mono
(which is an easy way to get the latest CVS information)
* Compiling with scripts
There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows. Get
mono-build.sh for Unix, or mono-build-w32.sh for Windows.
These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
(building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.) To use
the script, follow these simple steps:
* Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
* Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
* Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
* Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
* run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
You should install these packages from your distribution or
with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.
The script will download required packages from
www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
directory. IMPORTANT!: The cvs server chosen defaults to
anonymous cvs;
set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
select a particular cvs server.
** Building the software manually
You will need to obtain the Mono dependencies first: glib 2.x and
pkg-config.
*** Building on Linux
Unpack the Mono runtime distribution:
tar xzvf mono-X.XX.tar.gz
cd mono-X.XX
Then configure, compile and install:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
This will give you a runtime, C# compiler and runtime
libraries.
If you want to recompile the runtime and the compiler,
follow these steps, first unpack the MCS package:
tar xzvf mcs-X.XX.tar.gz
cd mcs-X.XX
Then use the following command to compile and install:
make -f makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr/local
You can change /usr/local to something else if you want.
*** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:
**** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.
* If you downloaded the Mono
nightly snapshot
, untar the snapshot.
* Change directories to "mcs".
* Compile:
make
*** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:
* If you downloaded the Mono
nightly snapshot
, untar the snapshot.
* Change directories to "mono".
* Configure, compile and install:
./configure --prefix=c:/mono
make
make install
* Software resources and notes
The required and additional software can be downloaded here:
* Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from
msdn.microsoft.com/downloads.
* Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from
www.cygwin.com.
Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.
* Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
their dependencies) by the GIMP for Windows project from
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.11-20020310.zip
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-2.0.4-20020703.zip
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-2.0.4-20020703.zip
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7-20020101.zip
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip
* Download the Mono source code from the
packaged versions or
the
nightly snapshots or the
Anonymous CVS. The nightly snapshots are done every
night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are
not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.
*** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:
* Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing
autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
`make maintainer-clean' after the update).
* Download, compile and install pkg-config from source.
(I had to change line 674 of
pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c from
extern char *strsignal (int sig); to
extern const char *strsignal (int sig);.
tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd pkg-config-0.8.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
* Download, compile and install libiconv from source.
If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
the binary package available at
http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip.
* Download, compile and install the
glib 2.0 from source.
** Upgrading
To upgrade your Mono installation from CVS, it is very
important that you update your Mono and MCS modules from CVS
at the same time. Failure to do so might result in a
problematic installation as the runtime and the class
libraries will be out of sync.
Run the following commands to update your CVS tree (more
details in Cvs and Mono and the AnonCVS and Mono pages).
(cd mono; cvs update -dP .)
(cd mcs; cvs update -dP .)
Once you have updated your sources, remove any cached
assemblies or old binaries from the Mono "runtime" directory,
and then compile each component:
(cd mono/runtime; rm *exe *dll)
(cd mono; make)
(cd mcs; make)
Now you can install the result:
(cd mono; make install)
Notice that following the above procedure does not require you
to manually install the software in the `mcs' directory, as
the relevant files will be copied by the `mono' makefiles.