[Mono-dev] Standalone Mono

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:02 -0500, Highlord Kruul wrote:
> I have severely limited privileges  on this  Red Hat box,  in that
> commands like RPM and MAKE INSTALL will fail 100% of the time.

`make install` should work, you just need to install it to a directory
that you have permissions to.

For example, running `./configure` will try to install Mono
into /usr/local, and you won't have write permissions there.  So instead
install it into your home directory, with:

	./configure --prefix=$HOME/mono

> That being said, is it possible that there exists a way to use Mono
> and its utilities without installing it?  Like some type of standalone
> mono directory, where I could execute Mono simply by doing
> a /directory/that/mono/is/in/mono program.exe style command?

If you have a working mono install elsewhere, you should be able to use
the `mkbundle' command to merge Mono with a .exe.  However, depending on
the mono version, you might get the same libgthread error that you're
seeing from the installer.

 - Jon