[Mono-devel-list] Problem compiling from source on Windows XP.

[Francisco T. Martinez]

John Sheppard wrote:

> Hi all,
>     I hope that you can offer me some resolution. Here is my environment
>  
> Windows XP SP 2
> uname = CYGWIN_NT-5.1
> GLib 2.0
>  
> From bash shell I did a mkdir in /usr/local for a new directory name 
> src.  I CD'd into this directory then I got latestt code via svn for 
> mono, mcs and gtk-sharp.  Once this was done I CD'd into the mono 
> directory and issued the following command:
>  
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --with-preview=yes
>  
> This seemed to run fine.  I then issued the command
>  
> make get-monolite-latest
>  
> This downloaded a file and seemed to pass just fine.  So then I issued 
> the make command.  After a bit of compilation it bombed out in 
> mono/mono/utils/mono-hash.h and mono-hash.c.  It couldn't find the 
> glib.h header file which is located at /usr/local/glib-2.0. (I've 
> included the exact error file generated by make 2>error.txt)  Thinking 
> that maybe the 1.1 unstable branch was to blame I re-issued the 
> ./autogen.sh command leaving off the --with-preview=yes.  This 
> resulted in the same error.  I then included the path the glib.h file 
> in my user Include environmental varaible to no avail.  Same error.  
> Does anyone know how I can get past this error.

Go ahead and get the Mono combined installer that you will find here:
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/downloads.php/monowin32/Mono%20Win32%20Combined%20Installer/v1.1.4.0/

Follow the instructions that you will see in this O'Reilly article:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/02/07/monowindows.html

Hope this helps
Paco