Compile Mono from GIT

CentOS has no package for Mono. This will compile Mono from the GIT repository.

Hint
Since this is updated very often it could include some bugs. But in most cases it works great.

Procedure

•	Get admin rights su -

•	Preparation for installation ... yum install glib2-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel giflib-devel libtiff-devel libX11-devel fontconfig-devel bison gettext libtool cairo-devel

•	Create a new folder where we place the files. You can use the tmp directory for that mkdir /tmp/sources cd /tmp/sources

libgdiplus Compilation

•	Get the libgdiplus sources from GIT git clone git://github.com/mono/libgdiplus

•	Enter the new directory cd libgdiplus

•	Run autogen ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

•	Compile the sources make Solving “libtool: Version mismatch error” autoreconf -ivf

•	Install the files make install

•	Leave the directory cd ..

Mono Compilation

•	Get the Mono sources from GIT git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git

•	Enter the new directory cd mono

•	Run autogen ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local

•	Install and configure gmcs sudo make get-monolite-latest cd mcs/class/lib/monolite cp basic.exe gmcs.exe cd ../../../.. Hint You can also use apt-get install mono-gmcs for the 4 gmcs steps.

•	Compile the sources (15 minutes) If you used sudo make get-monolite-latest use this: sudo make EXTERNAL_MCS="/tmp/sources/mono/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe" If you use apt-get install mono-gmcs use this: sudo make

•	Install the files sudo make install

Uninstall

•	Run the uninstall sudo make uninstall

•	remove the source files rm -rf ~/sources/mono

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