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This is Mono.
1. Installation
2. Using Mono
3. Directory Roadmap
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 2.0
Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
Optional dependencies:
* ICU library
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html
You will need this one to get complete support for the international
features of the .NET Framework.
* Cairo and libgdiplus
If you want to get support for System.Drawing, you will need to get
both Libgdiplus and Cairo.
b. Building the Software
------------------------
If you obtained this package as an officially released tarball,
this is very simple, use configure and make:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC and PowerPC systems.
The various commands that ship with Mono default to the JIT engine
on x86 and SPARC, to turn it on for PPC systems, use the --with-jit=yes
command line option to configure.
MacOS X Users: you will need to download the latest Boehm GC
Alpha release for garbage collection to work properly.
If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
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:
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
=============
Once you have installed the software, you can run a few programs:
* runtime engine
mono program.exe
or
mint program.exe
* C# compiler
mcs program.cs
* CIL Disassembler
monodis program.exe
See the man pages for mono(1), mint(1), monodis(1) and mcs(2)
for further details.
3. Directory Roadmap
====================
doc/
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.
metadata/
The object system and metadata reader.
jit/
The Just in Time Compiler.
dis/
CIL executable Disassembler
cli/
Common code for the JIT and the interpreter.
io-layer/
The I/O layer and system abstraction for
emulating the .NET IO model.
cil/
Common Intermediate Representation, XML
definition of the CIL bytecodes.
interp/
Interpreter for CLI executables.
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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