[Mono-list] Can mono be built using Visual Studio?

[Ben Cooley]

I built the May version of mono in Visual Studio, and I have a VS 7 solution
which builds and runs.  I never did the test suite on it though.

The main issues were just fiddling with the slight incosistencies between
the Win32 api definitions in cygwin and windows, and handling a few GCC
dependencies in a couple of places.

I also had to create VS .lib's for the various dll's mono links to.. but I
just used the lib.exe for that.

I can send you my build, as well as my detailed log of what I did to make it
work.

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel@ximian.com>
To: "Piyush, Garyali (IE10)" <Piyush.Garyali@honeywell.com>
Cc: "mono (E-mail)" <mono-list@ximian.com>; "Vivek, Bharath Varma (IE10)"
<Vivek.Varma@honeywell.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Can mono be built using Visual Studio?


> Hello,
>
> > I have found that the <windows.h> (from /include/w32api)
> > which has been used within the mono code might try to be
> > a stepping stone for the process. If that (plus the dependency
> > on some other *linux* header files is resolved), would
> > building mint/mono on Microsoft Visual Studio be a healthy
> > exercise or am I just breaking my head against the wall. :-)
>
> You are on the right path, I do not remember the details, but I was
> under the impression that Mono can be made a fully native Windows binary
> with no runtime dependencies on Cygwin (It is only used to build it).
>
> I would love to have a VS "Solution" that would build it.
>
> Miguel
>
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