[MonoDevelop] Error when attempting to compile Monodevelop 1.9 from source

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Brett Senior
<brett_senior at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I have just tried to compile monodevelop 1.9 from SVN.  The configure part
> goes well, but when I do 'make' I get the following error:
>
>
> ./MonoDevelop.AddinAuthoring/ExtensionPointsEditorWidget.cs(147,29): error
> CS1061: Type `Mono.Addins.Description.ExtensionPoint' does not contain a
> definition for `CopyFrom' and no extension method `CopyFrom' of type
> `Mono.Addins.Description.ExtensionPoint' could be found (are you missing a
> using directive or an assembly reference?)
> ./MonoDevelop.AddinAuthoring/ExtensionPointsEditorWidget.cs(150,36): error
> CS1061: Type `Mono.Addins.Description.ExtensionPoint' does not contain a
> definition for `CopyFrom' and no extension method `CopyFrom' of type
> `Mono.Addins.Description.ExtensionPoint' could be found (are you missing a
> using directive or an assembly reference?)
>
>
> I checked to see if I had Mono Addins installed and I have version 0.3.1-5
> installed from the Debian repository.  Do I need to download the version of
> mono addins from the mono site, or will the version that I have installed be
> OK ?  Any help in this matter would be much appreciated.

I recommend against building MonoDevelop.AddinAuthoring. It's
incomplete and currently requires Mono.Addins from SVN. Hopefully it
will be usable by the time we release Mono.Addins 0.4; until then,
there is little reason to upgrade Mono.Addins to the SVN version.

Run "./configure --select" again to change the "extras" addins you're building.

All of these extras have been excluded from the main distribution for
some reason: stability, incompleteness, or additional dependencies.

Note also that you won't be able to build the debugger "extra" unless
you have Mono 2.0. Hopefully Debian will package Mono 2.0 and its
debugger soon (please read
http://mjhutchinson.com/journal/2007/11/08/how_not_break_mono if you
want to build it from source).

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com