[MonoDevelop] monodevelop against mono 2.6

[ptr]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:54 PM, ptr2009 <ptrajkumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hey all
> >
> >  I am trying to test some functionality that was added to
> > System.ServiceModel.dll in mono 2.6.  I am running Ubuntu 9.10
> >
> > Is it possible to use mono 2.0 against mono 2.6 latest svn .
> >
> > I have successfully compiled mono / mcs / libgdiplus from the latest svn
> > trunk and installed them in /home/monobin.
> >
> > When I start monodevelop from a shell that has /home/monobin/bin in its
> path
> > , monodevelop fails with an error  saying Mono.Addins assembly could not
> be
> > found.
> >
> >  monodevelop website says specifically to use against a stable mono
> release.
> >
> > Is it possible to compile the latest monodevelop svn against mono 2.6. ?
>
> Yes, it is, but you need all the supporting libraries that MD needs
> installed into your parallel Mono. Assuming you are using a properly
> separated parallel Mono, you can set MONO_GAC_PREFIX in the parallel
> environment to make it fall back to another Mono's GAC:
> http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments#Tip:_MONO_GAC_PREFIX
>
> The reason you can build is that pkg-config (which is used to find
> libraries at compile-time) has fallbacks hardcoded:
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments#BEWARE:_pkgconfig_fallback_behaviour
>
> Note also that MD 2.2 can target parallel Monos without having to run
> on them. Add your parallel Mono using Edit->Preferences>.NET runtimes,
> then switch the target runtime using Project->Target runtime.
>
>
1) When I run monodevelop 2.0 I donot see an option called
Edit->Preference->.NET runtimes.

2) Also what is the syntax for defining MONO_GAC_PREFIX ? I have mono
installed under /home/username/monobin

in which I have directories called

bin,etc,include etc
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