[Mono-list] Compiling Mono on FreeBSD (not using the port system)

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
29 Apr 2003 13:30:17 +0100


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 04:43, James Gosnell wrote:
> I've gotten the tarred .23 version CVS version to compile on FreeBSD
> but WITHOUT boehm garbage collection. It seems the ./configure
> script(or something) is not detecting gc.h in the /usr/local/include
> dir, and therefore doesn't compile in garbage collection.

If the headers are somewhere other than /usr/include then you need to
tell gcc via configure.

The build script in doc/mono-build.sh has several checks such as this
for building on freebsd.

- Dick