Mono installation from source?

[Richard Thombs]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:52 -0500, amerigo5 amerigo5 wrote:
> Anyone tried installing mono from source (./configure, make  and make 
> install)? Can anyone provide steps on installing mono from newly installed 
> Ubuntu? Thanks.

Hey George,

I managed to do this last week. The big issue to overcome is that Ubuntu
doesn't install any of the -dev packages you need by default, you you
have to apt-get them or grab them with Synaptic.

When I did it, I stupidly didn't make a list of what I installed,
otherwise I could tell you now :-), but basically I just started with
the mono and mcs tarballs, tried to make them, looked at which packages
it complained about, went to find them in Synaptic and rinsed and
repeated.

To get gtk-sharp fully built you need a lot of Gnome -dev packages,
otherwise most of the optional parts will not be built, most of which
are required for MonoDoc and MonoDevelop.

I think a good start is to install the build-essentials package, which
should let you build mono and mcs.

I hope this helps,

Richard.