[Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows

[Louis R. Marascio]

I looked at this some time ago.  I didn't proceed because I noticed that
the Nant guys and the Msbuild guys were going to work on interop w/ one
another.  I would expect, at the very least, that Nant will support an
Msbuild target.  Of course, it may be better to eventually have a native
Msbuild implementation, but the quicker route would be to add that type
of target to Nant.

Louis 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-devel-list-admin at lists.ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-devel-list-admin at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of 
> Rob.Tillie at Student.tUL.EDU
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:42 PM
> To: neitz33a at erau.edu; Rob.Tillie at Student.tUL.EDU; 
> marek.safar at seznam.cz
> Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows
> 
> Yes, maybe that's a good plan. The estimated time to program 
> an msbuild tool
> is 4-6 months (on mono's todo list). Having a good build 
> environment way
> faster would be handy :).
> Afterwards we could transform the nant files to msbuild files.
> How long do you think it takes to make mono nant-buildable?
> 
> Greetz,
> -- Rob.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathan Neitzke [mailto:neitz33a at erau.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:00 PM
> > To: Rob.Tillie at Student.tUL.EDU; marek.safar at seznam.cz
> > Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > Subject: RE: [Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows
> > 
> > I am pretty familiar with MSBuild since I received a beta 
> copy at the
> > Microsoft PDC 2003.  It is a very nice build system.
> > 
> > I had actually considered doing exactly what you guys 
> suggested.  However,
> > I
> > don't believe the NAnt route is a waste of time.  Why?  
> Because if you
> > read
> > the MS documentation for MSBuild - it says that it is 
> extremely similar to
> > NAnt; and it is!
> > 
> > So I decided that instead of biting off something so big, 
> why not use the
> > tools that were already available and get something done quickly.
> > 
> > However, if you guys are going to implement an MSBuild 
> system I would be
> > more than willing to help in any way possible since any 
> build file we use
> > would then be future proof (would work with Microsoft's future build
> > tools,
> > not just Mono's implementation).
> > 
> > Take care!
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Nathan
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob.Tillie at Student.tUL.EDU [mailto:Rob.Tillie at Student.tUL.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:45 AM
> > To: marek.safar at seznam.cz; neitz33a at erau.edu
> > Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > Subject: RE: [Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows
> > 
> > That is even a better option, I was thinking lately to 
> start implement the
> > MSBuild namespaces. Anyone started this already?
> > 
> > Greetz,
> > -- Rob.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Marek Safar [mailto:marek.safar at seznam.cz]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:19 PM
> > > To: Nathan Neitzke
> > > Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows
> > >
> > > Hello Nathan,
> > >
> > > I think that is wasting of time.
> > > Because format of  Microsoft sln, csproj, vbproj files is totally
> > > different in the latest Visual Studio 2005. And is based on new
> > > Microsoft tool called msbuild (Microsoft clone of ant, 
> nant, . ..).
> > > My suggestion is to focus on implementation this tool I 
> ignore these
> > > "obsolete" formats. Especially when this tool is part of 
> .NET 2.0 and
> > > became more and more important for us. We can be compatible with
> > > VS2002,VS2003 simply with the of Microsoft migration tool 
> included in
> > > VS2005.
> > > Maybe someone have started implementation, but I am not sure.
> > >
> > > Marek
> > >
> > > > I am working on a new way to build Mono in windows 
> utilizing Visual
> > > > Studio.NET.  My first task is to get it to build using 
> a NAnt build
> > > > file which is coming along nicely.  Then, I am hoping 
> to make an XSLT
> > > > transform to convert the NAnt build file into VS.NET solution &
> > > > project files.  The hardest part to this all is that 
> instead of using
> > > > gcc to compile I am attempting to utilize cl.exe to 
> produce a windows
> > > > dll with the mono runtime.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone done any work in this area and have some
> > > > suggestions/comments that might be useful to me?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks much!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nathan**
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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