[MonoDevelop] HOWTO Build MonoDevelop on OS X

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Jeff Armstrong-3 wrote:
> 
> 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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using 
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib

will break things in OS X and is only to allow testing of libraries.

You should install it like this
export  
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/local/lib

which does the same thing, but does not interfere with other programs

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