[Mono-list] mcs: command not found

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:00 -0700, Jeremy Vaught wrote:
> I installed Mono two ways, with the bin, after I couldn't get that
> working after a successful install, then compiling from source.  In
> both cases, I had successful installs.  In both cases the command
> 'mcs' is not found.  From what I can tell, there is an mcs in
> mono-install-directory/bin/ but that points to the mcs.exe that is in
> the mono-install-directory/lib/mono/1.0/.  Even in these directories,
> I still get mcs: command not found. 

You're probably not setting up your environment correctly.  Unless you
use a prefix of $HOME, `mcs' will not be placed in ~/bin, it will be
placed into mono-install-directory/bin, which probably isn't in your
$PATH, and thus won't be found.

The solution: set up your environment correctly:

        export MONO_PREFIX=mono-install-directory
        export PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
        export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MONO_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:
        $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MONO_PREFIX/lib
        
        # This is so we find also use the global GAC
        in /usr/lib/mono/gac,
        # in addition to my custom build.
        # This is only necessary if there is a global install of mono.
        export MONO_GAC_PREFIX=$MONO_PREFIX:/usr

Place the above into your ~/.bashrc (or appropriate equivalent), or
always set those variables before using `mcs'.
 
 - Jon