[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop on Win32

[John Luke]

Hello,
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 19:01 +0000, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> CJ from IRC suggested I build MonoDevelop from svn.  So, I tried
> building it on Cygwin. It kept failing in configure with macro
> `AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found.  If I installed Gettext and intltool
> from Cygwin, then I would get this:
> 
There are going to be lots of little things like this, I would recommend
building on linux until you get it working, then you can use md to build
itself.

> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for UNMANAGED_DEPENDENCIES_MONO... checking for
> UNMANAGED_DEPENDENCIES_
> MINT... configure: error: Please install mono version 1.1.10 or later to
> install
>  MonoDevelop.
> Please see http://www.mono-project.org/ to download latest mono sources
> or packages
This means it was not able to find your mono installation.
make sure mono is in your PATH
 
> rm: cannot remove `core': Is a directory
> 
> I tried faking out mint by copying mono.exe as mint.exe.  Mono Windows
> installer does not include mint since mono on windows does not need it
> anymore.

Ignore the mint stuff, it only falls back to that if it can't find mono.
(from the early Max OSX days).