[Mono-devel-list] Compiling from sources

[Arnhoffer Károly]

Hi all,

I am a very newbie in compiling Mono from sources (I have used RPMs so far) and I am not managed to do it successfully.

I have sources from http://go-mono.com/sources/mono-1.1/mono-1.1.8.tar.gz and http://mono.ximian.com/daily/mono-1.1.8.20050803.tar.gz and 'make' runs into error here:

make[7]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs/class/corlib'
make all-local
make[8]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs/class/corlib'
make[8]: *** No rule to make target `System.Security.Cryptography/CryptographicUnexpectedOperationExcpetion.cs', needed by `../../class/lib/basic/mscorlib.dll'.  Stop.
make[8]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs/class/corlib'
make[7]: *** [do-all] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs/class/corlib'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs/class'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs'
make[4]: *** [profile-do--basic--all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs'
make[3]: *** [profiles-do--all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/mcs'
make[2]: *** [all-local] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8/runtime'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mono-1.1.8/mono-1.1.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2

It seems that files are needed. I found some files in the unpacked archive's root. I started to copy them to locations that were turned out while making. But it is a very slow practice. How should I do this the best?

Thanks! 

Arnhoffer Károly