Compile Mono from GIT

This will compile Mono from the GIT repository. It takes about 4 hours in sum.

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

Procedure

•	Install additional needed packages sudo apt-get install libtool libglib2.0-dev libxrender-dev libfontconfig1-dev libpng12-dev libgif-dev libjpeg8-dev libtiff5-dev libexif-dev gettext libcairo2-dev

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

libgdiplus Compilation (this will take overall ~10 minutes)

•	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 sudo make

•	Install the files sudo 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 (~11 minutes) ./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 ~/sources/mono Hint You can also use apt-get install mono-gmcs for the 4 gmcs steps.

•	Compile the sources (this will take ~3:30 hours) If you used sudo make get-monolite-latest use this: sudo SKIP_AOT=true make EXTERNAL_MCS="/home/pi/sources/mono/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe" If you use apt-get install mono-gmcs use this: sudo SKIP_AOT=true make

•	Install the files sudo SKIP_AOT=true make install

Uninstall

•	Run the uninstall sudo make uninstall

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

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