[Mono-dev] What is best environment for building mono-2.8.1 for Windows?

[Jérôme De Cuyper]

Hi greenaj!

I uploaded a more recent post about how to compile mono on XP and Vista:
http://www.jdecuyper.com/?p=362

<http://www.jdecuyper.com/?p=362>Let us know if this helps!



On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stifu <stifu at free.fr> wrote:

>
> I successfully built Mono on Windows following this little tutorial:
> http://ivanz.com/2006/03/14/compile-mono-svn-head-on-windows/
>
> Except it's now Git rather than SVN.
>
>
> greenaj wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the replay, I was hoping it would be Linux cross compile
> > because the environment is so much easier to work with.  I am mainly a
> > Windows programmer who has some experience in Linux, but the Cygwin
> > environment is a lot harder to use than Linux.
> >
> > Is there any current help that one can get setting up Cygwin?  The
> > tutorials I found on the mono website do not work.  I had to make some
> > changes to get the cross compile to work on SuSE 11.3, but has been
> > considerably less painful and more rewarding than the Cygwin.
> >
> > Are there any resources for figuring out how to build under Cygwin for
> > 2.8.1, like some build scripts or anything else that can be retrieved
> from
> > the Mono project on GitHub?  So far Cygwin has been a nightmare of wasted
> > time.
> >
>
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