8 1. Compilation and Installation
9 ===============================
14 To build Mono, you will need the following components:
18 Available from: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/pkgconfig
22 Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
24 Optional dependencies:
28 http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html
30 You will need this one to get complete support for the international
31 features of the .NET Framework.
33 * Cairo and libgdiplus
35 If you want to get support for System.Drawing, you will need to get
36 both Libgdiplus and Cairo.
38 b. Building the Software
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41 If you obtained this package as an officially released tarball,
42 this is very simple, use configure and make:
44 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
48 Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC and PowerPC systems.
49 The various commands that ship with Mono default to the JIT engine
50 on x86 and SPARC, to turn it on for PPC systems, use the --with-jit=yes
51 command line option to configure.
53 MacOS X Users: you will need to download the latest Boehm GC
54 Alpha release for garbage collection to work properly.
56 If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
57 Mono installation. To upgrade your installation, unpack both
60 tar xzf mcs-XXXX.tar.gz
61 tar xzf mono-XXXX.tar.gz
63 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
69 If you are upgrading from CVS you will need an existing Mono installation.
70 First verify that you have a working installation:
72 echo 'class X { static void Main () { System.Console.Write("OK");}}' > x.cs
82 If you get the output `OK' and no errors, you are ready to start your CVS upgrade.
84 First, make sure that you have up-to-date mcs and mono sources:
88 Then, go into the mono directory, and configure:
91 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
93 Then compile using the special target `fullbuild':
97 This step will compile and install at the same time.
99 Failure to follow these steps will result in a broken installation.
105 Once you have installed the software, you can run a few programs:
121 See the man pages for mono(1), mint(1), monodis(1) and mcs(2)
128 Contains the web site contents.
131 Technical documents about the Mono runtime.
134 Configuration files installed as part of the Mono runtime.
137 The core of the Mono Runtime.
140 The object system and metadata reader.
143 The Just in Time Compiler.
146 CIL executable Disassembler
149 Common code for the JIT and the interpreter.
152 The I/O layer and system abstraction for
153 emulating the .NET IO model.
156 Common Intermediate Representation, XML
157 definition of the CIL bytecodes.
160 Interpreter for CLI executables.
163 Architecture specific portions.
167 Manual pages for the various Mono commands and programs.
171 Scripts used to invoke Mono and the corresponding program.
175 A directory holding a pre-compiled version of the Mono