[Mono-list] Win32 Compile works but is incomplete, looking for whats missing

[Robert Jordan]

Hi Rod,

On 26.04.2011 18:14, Rod wrote:
> I finally was able to get a Win32 compile to finish with help from Robert
> Jordan and this link:
>
> http://shana.worldofcoding.com/en/mono_cygwin_tutorial.html
>
> Full thread is here: http://go-mono.com/forums/#nabble-td3471123
>
> So now my new problem is this is not a full build of mono. So one example is
> what I get will run some of our already compiled code, but I can't compile
> the code using the 2.11 output. When I compare the files that are in the
> 2.10 releases with what is output by the Cygwin compile using the Shana
> instructions there are a lot of things missing.  This could be because the

Would you please elaborate? Which files are missing and what
error messages did you get while compiling?

> Shana instructions are based on Mono 1.2 and we are now at 2.11, so it could
> be missing some required libraries to be installed on Cygwin to get it to be
> detected by the autogen so it will compile the extra stuff.
>
> So can someone review the Shana instructions and let me know what is missing
> from them that would give me the same Win32 output matching the release
> output in 2.10 (mono-2.10.2-gtksharp-2.12.10-win32-5.exe)?

The installer is built using another GIT project:

https://github.com/mono/release

See the "windows-installer" folder inside this project.

I don't believe there are any docs about this process.
The installer was always built internally by Novell.

Robert