[Mono-list] Building Mono on Windows

[Atsushi Eno]

I have ended up to file the windows build breakage as a critical bug 
awhile ago:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605810

Basically eglib migration is all of the cause of the issues.
Just disable it by autogen.sh --with-glib=system.

And you can't actually use mono without problem. Mono built from trunk 
cannot build corlib and possibly other libs.

Atsushi Eno


On 2010/05/25 5:50, Robert Jordan wrote:
> On 24.05.2010 20:13, Giles Thomas wrote:
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to build Mono on Windows, and have hit a problem which I'm
>> struggling to work my way around -- I'd be grateful for any help.
>>      
> The bad news first: the Windows build is broken at present.
> Comments inline.
>
>    
>> Here's the error message:
>>
>> ----------
>> make[8]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mono/mcs/tools/gacutil'
>> Creating ../../build/deps/gacutil.exe.response ...
>> MCS     [basic] gacutil.exe
>> The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded.
>> It should have been installed in the
>> `C:\cygwin\usr\src\mono\mono\mono\mini\lib\
>> mono\2.0\mscorlib.dll' directory.
>> make[8]: *** [../../class/lib/basic/gacutil.exe] Error 1
>>      
> This probably a problem on your side. Do you have an official
> Mono installation in your path as suggested by Shana's docs?
>
>    
>> I'm following the instructions on this excellent (but, I think, slightly
>> out of date) blog post:
>> <http://shana.worldofcoding.com/en/mono_cygwin_tutorial.html>, which is
>> linked from the Mono website.
>>      
> They are still relevant (modulo version numbers).
>
>    
>> * I created a fresh Cygwin install, with the packages described, with
>> the path set up appropriately for the new packaged Mono install location.
>>      
> See above.
>
>    
>> * I installed make 3.80 from the Mono website -- it needed libintl2 in
>> addition to the other Cygwin packages mentioned in the blog post.  (Now
>> that Cygwin has 3.81 in its package repo, I imagine that this might no
>> longer be necessary, but I felt it was worth sticking with what was
>> meant to work...)
>>      
> This special Make version is still required.
>
>    
>> * I ran ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local in /usr/src/mono/ -- it
>> initially gave a bunch of errors, apparently due to DOS line endings in
>> eglib/autogen.sh.  However, I wasn't sure if these were expected...
>>      
> The CRLF issue is probably caused by a Tortoise SVN checkout.
> You're supposed to use cygwin's svn and also take care to mount
> cygwin's "drives" in binary mode (it's the default, though).
>
>    
>> * ...so I ran make, and got "mv: cannot stat `t-es.gmo': No such file or
>> directory"
>> * Google pointed me here
>> <http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2008-September/039671.html>,
>> so I installed gettext-devel as advised.
>>      
> Another solution is to autogen with --enable-nls=no or --disable-nls.
>
>    
>> * I got the error reported at the start of this email, and spend some
>> time trying to work out what was happening vs what was meant to be
>> happening, and got nowhere.
>>      
> You're not alone on the journey to nowhere :) I'll post a
> status update if I manage to fix the build.
>
> Robert
>
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