[Mono-list] Anyone ever tried to run NAnt on mono on Windows?

[Gert Driesen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
> Sent: zaterdag 3 december 2005 14:08
> To: Gert Driesen
> Cc: 'mono-list mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Anyone ever tried to run NAnt on 
> mono on Windows?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Gert Driesen wrote:
> >  
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Atsushi Eno [mailto:atsushi at ximian.com] 
> >> Sent: vrijdag 2 december 2005 10:58
> >> To: Gert Driesen
> >> Cc: 'mono-list mailing list'
> >> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Anyone ever tried to run NAnt on 
> >> mono on Windows?
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> Up until now, NAnt needed the registry key created by the 
> >>>> Mono installer to
> >>>>> determine 
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a) whether Mono was actually installed
> >>>>> b) what the installation directory was
> >>>>> c) what version was actually installed
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Linux, we use pkg-config for this purpose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'll see if I can use pkg-config for this purpose on 
> >>>> Windows too (for those
> >>>>> building Mono from source in cygwin). Should not be that hard.
> >>>> Thanks, that would be nice.
> >>> Support for this is now in cvs. Let me know if you notice 
> >> any problems with
> >>> it.
> >> If the change is to run nant without accessing windows 
> registry, then
> >> it did not seem to have solved the problem. It still requires that
> >> registry key.
> > 
> > Are you using anon-cvs ? If so, then you'll have to wait 
> until it has been
> > synced (not sure what the update interval is for sf.net cvs).
> > 
> > I'd appreciate it if you'd test it once it's available in anon-cvs.
> 
> Yeah, seems like I was too quick to try anoncvs. After getting 
> up-to-date sources, it worked fine :-) Thanks!
> 
> btw it would be awesome if it also differentiates "make install"
> behavior (instead of installing files under *:/Program Files/).
> It's totally optional wish tho.

Can you elaborate on this ?  

Are you talking about a way to specify another install dir ?

You can do this using the prefix option:

Unix/Lnux:

$ make install prefix=/usr/local

Windows

$ make install prefix=c:\NAnt

-or-

$ nmake -f Makefile.nmake install prefix=c:\NAnt

Gert