[Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

[Alex J Lennon]

On 16/10/2014 08:45, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> On 16/10/2014 00:17, Chris Eelmaa wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have question regarding building mono on windows,
>> namely I've tried a lot of times, and had a lot of different
>> problems(such as missing some dependencies, git converting *.sh files
>> to CRLF ending and cygwin not being able to interpret them, etc..)
>>
>> however I've reached now to a point where I can run `make` for a little while,
>> and then receive the error:
>>
>> In file included from socket-io.c:30:0:
>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ws2tcpip.h:38:2: error:
>> #error "ws2tcpip.h is not compatible with winsock.h. Include
>> winsock2.h instead."
>> In file included from socket-io.c:30:0:
>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ws2tcpip.h:147:8: error:
>> redefinition of 'struct ip_mreq'
>> In file included from
>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/windows.h:93:0,
>>
>>
>> As you can see, winsock.h doesn't play well with ws2tcpip.h. I ran a
>> grep to look for winsock.h from mono dir, but there's nothing about
>> that. That file seems to be crawling in from some arbitrary place?!
>>
>>
>> After that, I tried to compile with DISABLE_SOCKETS, and then I
>> arrived to this place:
>>
>> ./.libs/libmini.a(libmini_la-debugger-agent.o): In function
>> `socket_transport_connect':
>> /cygdrive/c/GITHUB/mono/mono/mini/debugger-agent.c:1236: undefined
>> reference to `mono_network_init'
>>
>>
>>
>> At this point, I have no idea what to do. Is mono master branch
>> broken, or is it possible to actually build it with Windows from
>> there? Can anyone confirm? Do I have messed up Windows SDK or
>> something similiar?
>>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I put this together precisely because it's such a problem -
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/815565/How-to-build-Mono-on-Windows
>
> I've tested various iterations and had feedback that others have found
> it doesn't work.
>
> Periodically git master doesn't build but I don't have the time to track
> that. I will be updating
> next time I discover there's a new release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> _______________________________________________

*does work

That'll teach me to email before coffee...

Regards,

Alex