4 The Mono project has developed mono, a CLI runtime. The build process
5 of each of these depends on nothing more than a C compiler and glib2.
7 However, to provide a working runtime environment, these programs must
8 be supplemented by the class libraries, which are written in C#. This
9 package contains the components written in C#: class libraries,
12 *********************************************************************
16 * Unless you are developing the class libraries, you should *
17 * not need to do any build steps in this directory. *
19 * Go to ../mono and read the README file to compile and *
22 * ../mono is where you have your `mono' source download *
24 *********************************************************************
26 If you only want to build a snapshot or a fresh checkout of the
27 sources, you should go into the `mono' sibling directory and issue the
28 make command, like this:
31 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
35 The compilation is bundled with the build due to dependencies on the
36 class libraries on the runtime.
41 If you want to change the configuration options for the build process,
42 place your configuration options in build/config.make
44 A list of variables that control the build are listed in the file
45 build/config-default.make.
47 More About the Build System
48 ===========================
50 More information is found in build/README.*. Here's a quick rundown
53 * Profile support. 'make PROFILE=profilename' or 'export
54 PROFILE=profilename ; make' will work. Profiles are defined
55 in build/profiles/profilename.make ;
57 * Important variables are shared among makefiles now; you can
58 edit build/config.make (see build/config-default.make for a
59 template) and give global settings, or just have a much
60 saner time of writing new makefiles.
62 * Response files, stamps, and other build trivia now all land
63 in build/deps/, making the library build directories
66 * Test libraries now live in class/Library/Library_test.dll,
67 not class/Library/Test. 'make test' will build the test DLL,
68 'make run-test' will actually run the nunit tests.
70 * Standardized recursive targets: all, clean, install, test,
71 run-test. Read build/README.makefiles for definitions of
74 * (Relatively) sane 'make dist' target; 'make distcheck'