[MonoDevelop] HOWTO Build MonoDevelop on OS X

[Christian Hoff]

I think this good description is worth to be added to the MonoDevelop 
articles on the home page. There are for sure very many people who could 
benefit from this post. The only thing I found on the MonoDevelop page 
was an old bundle with Mono 1.2.6 and MD 0.18 for Mac.

Of course none of the developers will be able to verify that these 
instrctions actually work, but maybe someone would volunteer(or Jeff 
could maybe do it again with a clean setup). Even if they are not 
verified, they'll be a help for everyone trying to build MD on OSX. I'd 
have liked to do it myself, but I don't own a mac, sorry...

Christian

Jeff Armstrong schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I posted a question a few days ago about building MonoDevelop. I
> noticed someone else had a similar question after mine and I thought I
> would post what I did to get it to work. I think I've fully described
> the process here, forgive me if I missed something. It took me about a
> day to get it worked out lol. I find any errors I'll post a
> correction.
>
> First, sorry about the long post.
>
> Second, I had to remove the Mono installation I had on my system.
> There was nothing wrong with it but I found that I had to use the one
> from MacPorts to get all this work. I can provide instructions about
> removing the Mono installation provided by the Mono project site if
> anyone needs help with this.
>
> Next, install MacPorts if you haven't already. I also removed all of
> my Fink stuff, and I wasn't not able to get this to work using Fink
>
> Install the following packages from MacPorts:
>
>   mono
>   mono-addins
>   gnome-sharp2
>
> Add this to you bash environment:
>
>   export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
>
> You need to add a couple sym-links in the MacDevelop GTK Sharp area to
> get pkg-config to work. Got this directory
> /opt/local/var/macports/software/gtk-sharp2/2.10.3_0/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig.
> Add these links:
>
>   # These correct a naming conflict between the MacPorts gtk-sharp2
> project name and the pkg-config files
>   sudo ln -s gtk-sharp-2.0.pc gtk-sharp2.pc
>   sudo ln -s glade-sharp2-2.0.pc glade-sharp2.pc
>
> Get the latest MonoDevelop source like this:
>
>   svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/monodevelop
>
> Alter the first several lines of the 'configure' script to look
> 'exactly' like this (very important!):
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>    VERSION=0.17
>    profile=mac
>
>     prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix mono`
>
> Then run this:
>
>    sudo ./configure  # I found it important to be running as root
>    make
>    make run
>
> If you get any complaints about TypeInitializationException when you
> run MonoDevelop let me know. I had a bunch of problems related to
> libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib. I solved these a couple of different ways and
> I think the steps I documented handle it.
>
> There may be a simpler way to this, I don't know, but hopefully this helps :)
>
> I also may have forgotten to document a step, so if you're having
> trouble let me know and I'll see if I can help. I'm going do nice
> write up on this early next week and post it on my web site. I also
> intend to test this build process again on a couple of more macs
> before I do. I hoping to do a lot of work with MonoDevelop, and
> hopefully I can contribute some stuff back. I might try to package up
> a working version of MonoDevelop for people running on the Mac next
> week if I can find someplace to put it on the web.
>
> Can someone tell me how to replay to a thread on using this news
> groups mail manager program too? I tried to Google and answer but I
> could find it.
>
> Enjoy!
>
>    -Jeff
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