[Mono-dev] Compiling mono on windows for developing (not running)

[Brandon Perry]

make -j N speeds it up.


On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) <
edward.harvey.mono at clevertrove.com> wrote:

> > From: martin at my2cents.co.uk [mailto:martin at my2cents.co.uk] On Behalf
> > Of Martin Thwaites
> >
> > I've been trying to get mono to compile in MD (4.3.3) on ubuntu 14.04 and
> > not having much luck with that either.  If you know of a tutorial for
> getting
> > that up and running I would grateful as that's a compromise.
>
> I am not aware of any way to make the IDE build mono.  I *am* aware of how
> to build on command line, and use IDE to step through source while
> debugging.
>
> You specifically mentioned ubuntu 14.4.  I recently had some difficulty
> building on 14.4, but fortunately somebody had already written a bug report
> about it, and written a workaround, and apparently, it's a common
> workaround that applies to a lot of platforms (as I had success using the
> same workaround on centos6 and ami2014.03).  Here's what I know:
>
> This is basically a script I copy & paste for myself to repeat on
> different machines.  Of course, adapt to your own tastes:
>
> git checkout mono into ~/mono
>
> (I forget why, cannot use ~ shorthand, must use absolute path)
> export BUILDDIR=/Users/eharvey/mono-build
>
> (on most systems)
> cd ~/mono ; time ( test -d $BUILDDIR && rm -rf $BUILDDIR ; mkdir -p
> $BUILDDIR ; ./autogen.sh --prefix=$BUILDDIR --disable-bcl-opt
> --enable-nls=no && make && make install && echo "" && echo "    Done" &&
> echo "")
>
> (ubuntu14.04 and some other systems)
> cd ~/mono ; time ( test -d $BUILDDIR && rm -rf $BUILDDIR ; mkdir -p
> $BUILDDIR ; ./autogen.sh --prefix=$BUILDDIR --disable-bcl-opt
> --enable-nls=no && make get-monolite-latest && make
> EXTERNAL_MCS="${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe" && make install &&
> echo "" && echo "    Done" && echo "")
>
> (Takes approx 30 minutes)
>
> Inside Xamarin Studio, create some dumb new project. By default only a
> single runtime registered so the Project / Active Runtime menu item doesn't
> appear. I had to go to Xamarin Studio / Preferences / .NET Runtimes / Add.
> Add the newly built runtime environment. The system thinks a while
> (beachball) and then the Project / Active Runtime menu becomes available,
> to select my newly compiled runtime.
>
> Go to Xamarin Studio / Preferences / Debugger. And un-check the checkbox:
> [_] Debug project code only; do not step into framework code
>
> And now for example, I'm able to write an app with:
> RSACryptoServiceProvider myrsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider (3072);
> myrsa.ExportParameters (includePrivateParameters: false);
>
> And I'm able to Start Debugging. And step into the RSA code to see what
> it's doing internally. Hooray! :-)
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