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Building mono and mcs for=20 Windows

by=20 Giovanni Zito (gzito at mbox.thunder.it)

I=20 decided to write this guide because I found that existing instructions = weren't=20 detailed enough.

I=20 spent almost one week before I can successfull build mono on=20 Windows.

So=20 here are detailed steps to help = you get a working=20 version of mono 0.29 on Windows.

I've=20 tested it on Windows XP SP1, but it should work on Windows 2000 as=20 well.

Prepare your building = environment

1)=20 Install the .NET SDK V1.1 from=20 msdn.microsoft.com/downloads.=20 I=92ve put this step here simply because previous instructions states to = install=20 it.=20 I=92m don=92t know if and why this step is required. By the way, if you = have=20 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed on your system (as me), = probably you=20 can skip this step.

2)=20 Install the latest cygwin setup (about 30MB). Start choosing the = default=20 installation if you are not sure what packages you need. You'll=20 can always get the other missing packages later, if mono configure = script will=20 require them. Be sure to get libiconv (not just libiconv2 = !).

3)=20 Get mono and mcs archives from

http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.29.tar.gz and=20 http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.tar.gz<= SPAN=20 lang=3DEN-GB=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; = mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">.

then extract=20 the tarballs in a directory of your choice. I chose to create directory = "src" in=20 my home.

$=20 mkdir ~/src

$=20 cd ~/src

$=20 tar xvfz = <path-where-you-downloaded-mono>/mono-0.29.tar.gz

$=20 tar xvfz = <path-where-you-downloaded-mono>/mcs-0.29.tar.gz

Get mono = dependencies

4)=20 Get the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and their = dependencies) by=20 the GIMP=20 for Windows=20 project:

http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.11-20020310.zip<= /A>
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-2.0.4-20020703.zip<= /SPAN>=20
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-2.0.4-20020703.zip<= /A>=20
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip<= SPAN=20 lang=3DEN-GB=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; = mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; = mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">=20
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7-20020101.zip=20
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip=

and=20 extract the tarballs into /usr/local.

The=20 /usr/local/bin directory should be in your PATH (by cygwin settings). = Also=20 ensure that /usr/local/lib is in your PATH, otherwise add the=20 line

=20 PATH=3D/usr/local/lib:$PATH

to=20 your "~/.bashrc". After this remember to restart your cygwin envirorment = (or=20 =93source ~/.bashrc=94).

5)=20 Get the Boehm garbage collector library (libgc) from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc6.2.tar.g= z.

I=20 spent many hours here. You must not build gclib with cygwin, you have to = do it=20 with cl.exe (i.e. the Microsoft compiler)!

Extract=20 the source tarball and then compile it using "nmake" from Visual Studio=20 .NET 2003 Command Prompt.

From=20 the command prompt type:

>=20 cd <path-where-you-extracted-gc>

>=20 nmake -f NT_THREADS_MAKEFILE

After=20 that copy Release/gc.lib and Release/gc.dll to = /usr/local/lib.

Also=20 you should install include files into /usr/local/include. Change to = the=20 folder where you extracted gc6.2 tarball and type:

mkdir=20 -p /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/gc.h /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/gc_config_macros.h /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/gc_local_alloc.h /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/gc_pthread_redirects.h /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/gc_typed.h /usr/local/include

cp=20 include/leak_detector.h /usr/local/include

mkdir=20 /usr/local/include/gc

cp=20 include/gc.h /usr/local/include/gc

cp=20 include/gc_alloc.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_allocator.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_amiga_redirects.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_backptr.h = /usr/local/include/gc
cp=20 include/gc_config_macros.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_cpp.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_gcj.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp = include/gc_inl.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_inline.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_local_alloc.h = /usr/local/include/gc
cp=20 include/gc_mark.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp = include/gc_pthread_redirects.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/gc_typed.h = /usr/local/include/gc
cp=20 include/leak_detector.h /usr/local/include/gc
cp = include/new_gc_alloc.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc
cp include/weakpointer.h=20 /usr/local/include/gc

6)=20 Get the ICU library from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6.1/index.html

I=92ve=20 got icu-2.6.1-Win32_msvc7.zip, although ICU version compiled = with msvc=20 6.0 should go well.

Follow=20 the instructions below, from Bernie Solomon:

[=20 I have come up with a way to build using ICU under cygwin.

I = downloaded=20 the prebuilt VC6 binaries from the link on http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6.1/index.html.

I=20 installed this under cygwin's structure (I used /usr/local/icu as the=20 root).

Somewhere in your path put this script as icu-config (I = chose=20 /usr/local/bin/icu-config) having edited ICU_ROOT to wherever you = installed ICU=20 (this script is attached as=20 well).

#/bin/sh

ICU_ROOT=3D/usr/local/icu
case=20 $1
in
--cppflags)
    echo=20 "-I$ICU_ROOT/include"
   =20 ;;
--ldflags)
    echo "-L$ICU_ROOT/lib -licuuc=20 -licuin"
    ;;
--version)
    = grep=20 '\<U_ICU_VERSION\>' $ICU_ROOT/include/unicode/uversion.h | sed -e=20 's/.*"$.*$".*/\1/'
    ;;
esac

Now you can = rerun=20 configure and this should detect the ICU installation properly and use = it.=20 ]

Important:=20 remember to "chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/icu-config" otherwise = the mono=20 configure script will be unable to detected ICU !

Thanks=20 to Bernie Solomon and Daniel Morgan to point me in right = direction in order=20 to successfull install ICU on cygwin

Building mono

You=20 are now ready to build mono.

$=20 cd ~src/mono-0.29
$ ./configure --with-gc=3Dboehm = CPPFLAGS=3D-I/usr/local/include=20 LDFLAGS=3D-L/usr/local/lib
$ make
$ make install

Building mcs

To=20 build mcs I used csc.exe (the C# compiler V7.10.3052.4) and ResGen.exe = (Resource=20 Generator) from Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003, although I think=20 you could use monoresgen.exe and mcs.exe from the = just-before-compiled=20 mono.

For=20 this purpose you should add the csc and ResGen locations to your PATH. I = added=20 the following line to my .bashrc file.

PATH=3D"$PATH:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.432= 2"
PATH=3D"$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program=20 Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET = 2003/SDK/v1.1/Bin"

Replace=20 "/cygdrive/c" with the path where you have installed your copy of MS = Visual=20 Studio.

After=20 that, restart your cygwin enviroment, and type:

$=20 cd ~/src/mcs-0.29
$ make
$ make install

All=20 done! I hope now you have a working mono, c# compiler and class = libraries on=20 Windows.