[Mono-dev] Mono Project: Next Steps

Frank Fuchs fk.fuchs at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 7 04:27:49 EDT 2011


Nice :)
Could you just try to follow the instructions I posted a while ago.
(
http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/compile-mono-on-windows-tp3443861p3452976.html)
If you run into problems I will try my best to help.
At least Jonathan seems to have reproduced what I did (
http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/compile-mono-on-windows-tp3443861p3486025.html
).

Best,
Frank

2011/7/7 Alex <xtzgzorex at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I would be eternally grateful if someone made that possible; Cygwin is
> a major pain in the butt to build anything with...
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Frank Fuchs <fk.fuchs at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello folks,
> >>
> >>   Some of you have been asking about the upcoming release of Mono 2.12.
> >>
> >>   We hit a little bit of a bump in the road with the layoff of the Mono
> >> team, but we have now re-constituted the team at Xamarin and we are
> >> getting
> >> back to speed.  Our first priority at Xamarin is to ensure that our
> >> amazing
> >> team of hackers remains employed, so we are focused on creating amazing
> >> products for the mobile space.   Of course, our products are entirely
> >> based
> >> on Mono, and as you can see from the commits to the various Mono
> modules,
> >> a
> >> lot of our energy goes into improving Mono.
> >>
> >>   To get the 2.12 release to your hands, here?s what we still need to
> do:
> >>
> >> (a) We need to be able to build packages
> >> (b) We need to be able to host the software
> >> (c) We need to adopt the branching and release procedures.
> >>
> >>   During the transition to Xamarin, we lost our build engineer. But
> >> luckily
> >> at Xamarin we?ve hired Alex Corrado, a very talented developer who?s
> >> created
> >> a new build system for Mono.  The good news is that we are making
> progress
> >> and we are now able to build Linux and MacOS packages.   Next, Alex is
> >> working on Windows builds.  We are not there yet, but we will be there
> in
> >> the next couple of weeks.
> >>
> >>   Once we have packages, we will setup a new website for the Mono
> project
> >> where we can host the software and the other project resources, like a
> >> wiki,
> >> forums, etc.  So we are working on a separate domain to host both a Mono
> >> web
> >> site and the software, and that should be up in the next week or two.
> >>
> >>   Once we have something ready, we will share the information with the
> >> rest
> >> of the world and give access to the new Wiki to the various maintainers
> to
> >> help us keep the content up to date.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your patience and your love for Mono!
> >>
> >> Miguel
> >
> > Maybe this is a good chance to dump the cygwin stuff and switch to
> Mingw-w64
> > and MSys (as native toolchain for Windows).
> > It is possible to build mono in 32 and 64bit with it - some people
> lurking
> > around at this list have done it (including me).
> >
> > Best,
> > Frank
> >
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