[Mono-dev] Getting started on mono sources

[Edward Ned Harvey (mono)]

> From: Brandon Perry [mailto:bperry.volatile at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:34 PM
> 
> While I am not positive on this at all, it may be easier to just use
> make in a cygwin env.

So, whether mac, linux, unix, or windows, the easiest way to build is clearly to use make.  But for debugging purposes, and development of mono itself, aren't people using IDE's of some kind?  Debugging would seem very cumbersome to me, without the IDE...  Ability to step through code, examine runtime variables, etc...