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1. install the package “libpango1.0-dev” instead of “libpango-dev”
2. package “libxul-dev” conflict with “firefox-3.5″
3. package “automake” repeat twice

Thank you for this tuto. How do you tell nant to use this version of mono instead of the one of Ubuntu ?

Many thanks, Patrick. That worked like a charm.

Thanks for posing the script. Once I got the ubuntu dependancies sorted things seemed to be going OK but now I am having problems with a compilation failure (see below). I’m sure I’ve just got some config wrong but not sure what to change. I tried adding PROFILE=net_2_0 to make install this didn’t fix the issue.

Thanks in advance

Neil

MCS [net_1_1] monodoc.dll
Monodoc/provider.cs(25,1): warning CS0105: The using directive for `System.Text.RegularExpressions’ appeared previously in this namespace
Monodoc/provider.cs(20,19): (Location of the symbol related to previous warning)
Monodoc/provider.cs(887,98): error CS1644: Feature `generics’ is not supported in Mono mcs1 compiler. Consider using the `gmcs’ compiler instead
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 1 warnings

Thanks for the script.

I can’t seem to be able to build any gtk# applications using this environment. Any idea how I can add gtk# to it?

Thanks a lot for the script. It’s so helpful!

Ah! Figured out the “The compiler ‘mcs’ doesn’t appear to be usable.” problem:

sudo apt-get install mono-1.0-devel

(I also had to use libcairo2-dev as mentioned above)

How can i target this environment in monodevelop? I want to try out the new soft-debugger and so on.

Hi there,
thank you for your nice script, but apt-get pointed out that libtiff-dev is a virtual package and I should use a proper one which is libtiff4-dev for example.
Well okay I used in on an Ubuntu 9.04 Server so I shouldn’t be complaining…
But it failed building Mono with:
decl.cs(628,57): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `var’ could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?
MI ERROR: mono failed

Hi,
I have Ubuntu 10.4 with Mono 2.4 package installed… but need 2.6 for some wcf stuff :/
is this script working for Ubuntu 10.4 as well? Anyone tried this?

Hi ,
tanx for the great article..currently using it to install mono 2.6.4 and monodevelop..Also installed the gtk# libraries using the steps U outlined.mono also installed perfectly but I seem to be having a problem with monodevelop.Using the steps u specified I get an error during the configuration stage. The error is “Mono addins gui missing”..Can u help??
I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.. tanx in advance

Hi,
Nice script
It’s possible to add -j N to make command to make the build process faster on MultiCore CPU?

I made some mods to build mono 2.8 on maverick. This isn’t fully tested for 2.6.7 or trunk, and there is one quirk with XSP that is noted in the comments at the top, but other than that it builds a fairly complete monodevelop environment.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Version 0.1
# This script is to install a parallel mono environment with ease
# It only checks out/installs mono 2.6 branch on Ubuntu 9.10 atm
#
# Copyright 2009 (c) QMTech Ltd (http://www.qmtech.net)
# Authors: Patrick McEvoy (firegrass) patrick@qmtech.net
# Contributions from Dan Quirk,
# This is free script under GNU GPL version 3.

# Modified by William F. Cook for use at DRS AMTC to build full monodevelop environment
# DRS Notes:
# * LLVM is built but not loaded by default. Modify mono-2.8 & mono-2.8-env
# with the “export MONO_USE_LLVM=1″ in order to turn it on by defalut
# * mono is built mostly default options. You may want to add
# –enable-big-arrays or other options
#
#
# To get XSP to build, you may first have to modifi ./mono-src-$VERSION/xsp/docs/makefile.am
# to change:
#
# INSTALLATION_DIR=$(shell pkg-config monodoc –variable=sourcesdir)
#
# to:
#
# INSTALLATION_DIR=/opt/mono-2.8/lib/monodoc/sources
#
# I’m working on that…

#
# Config
#

#default version is trunk. Also supported is “2.8″
VERSION=trunk

#option -s skips updating files from github
skipupdate=
skipbuild=
pauseflag=
inpvar=

ECHO_PREFIX=”—- ”

GIT_MODULES=”libgdiplus llvm mono gtk-sharp xsp mod_mono”

while getopts ‘abm:ptuv:’ opt
do
case $opt in
a) GIT_MODULES=”libgdiplus llvm mono gtk-sharp xsp mod_mono mono-basic mono-addins gtkmozembed-sharp webkit-sharp gluezilla gnome-sharp gnome-desktop-sharp mono-tools debugger monodevelop”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Building all”
;;
b) skipbuild=1
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Skipping build”
;;
m) GIT_MODULES=”$OPTARG”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Building $GIT_MODULES”
;;
p) pauseflag=1
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Pausing before configure/make/install steps”
;;
t) GIT_MODULES=”mono-basic mono-addins gtkmozembed-sharp webkit-sharp gluezilla gnome-sharp gnome-desktop-sharp mono-tools debugger monodevelop”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Building mono development tools”
;;
u) skipupdate=1
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Skipping source code update”
;;
v) VERSION=$OPTARG
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Building version $VERSION”
;;
?) printf “Usage: build_mono_parallel -v version [-s] [-t]“;;
esac
done

# TODO: webserver/server/workstation (+mod_mono,-gnome,-mono-tools/-gnome,-mono-tools/-mod_mono)
WORKING_DIR=~/mono-src-$VERSION

#
# WARNING: Don’t change stuff after here unless you’re sure….
#

echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Copyright 2009 (c) QMTech Ltd (http://www.qmtech.net)”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Authors: Patrick McEvoy (firegrass) patrick@qmtech.net”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Contributions from Dan Quirk,⋅Stefan Forster”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX This is free script under GNU GPL version 3.”

MONO_PREFIX=/opt/mono-$VERSION
GNOME_PREFIX=/usr

echo “$ECHO_PREFIX This script will install dependencies and checkout mono and install in a parallel environment.”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Report bugs to patrick@qmtech.net, firegrass on twitter, carrier pidgeon etc”

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool gettext gawk intltool \
libpng-dev libtiff-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libexif-dev autoconf automake \
bison flex libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev git-core libatk1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
libglade2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
libpanel-applet2-dev libgnomeprint2.2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libgtkhtml3.14-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev libnautilus-burn-dev librsvg2-dev libvte-dev libwncksync-dev \
libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev libwebkit-dev xulrunner-dev \
apache2-threaded-dev \
-y

# you really shouldn’t be doing this as root, you know…
if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
read -p “$ECHO_PREFIX WARNING: You are root, this means your git clones will be owned by root. Enter to continue, Ctrl+C to exit” inpVar
fi

echo “$ECHO_PREFIX I am installing mono version $VERSION, building in $WORKING_DIR”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX I need sudo access to install mono to /opt and mono-$VERSION in /usr/local/bin”
sudo echo “$ECHO_PREFIX If the sudo time limit is reached you will need to enter you password again.”
# making a dir to work from
mkdir -p $WORKING_DIR
cd $WORKING_DIR

# git path for mono sources
GIT_BASE=http://github.com/mono

if [ "$skipupdate" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Skipping source update.”
else
# svn modules to get

# check it all out or update
for mod in $GIT_MODULES; do
if [ "$VERSION$mod" == "2.6.7llvm" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX skipping LLVM for this version”;
elif [ -d $mod ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Updating $mod”
cd ${mod}
git pull || { echo “$ECHO_PREFIX ERROR: Updating $mod failed, you will need to manually ‘git clean -df’”; exit 1; }
cd ..
else
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Cloning $mod ($SVN_BASE/$mod)”
git clone ${GIT_BASE}/${mod}.git || { echo “$ECHO_PREFIX ERROR: Cloning $mod failed”; exit 1; }

# Configure version to use
if [ $VERSION == "trunk" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Setting branch to master”
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX $mod”
cd ${mod}
git checkout master
cd ..
elif [ $VERSION == "2.8" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Setting branch to 2.8″
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX $mod”
cd ${mod}
if [ $mod == "gtk-sharp" ]; then
git checkout –track -b gtk-sharp-2-12-branch origin/gtk-sharp-2-12-branch
elif [ $mod == "gnome-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gluezilla" ]; then
git checkout –track -b mono-2-6-4 origin/mono-2-6-4
elif [ $mod == "webkit-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gtkmozembed-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gnome-desktop-sharp" ]; then
git checkout –track -b gnome-desktop-sharp-2-24-branch origin/gnome-desktop-sharp-2-24-branch
elif [ $mod == "mono-addins" ]; then
git checkout –track -b 0.5 origin/0.5
elif [ $mod == "monodevelop" ]; then
git checkout –track -b 2.4 origin/2.4
else
git checkout –track -b mono-2-8 origin/mono-2-8
fi
cd ..
elif [ $VERSION == "2.6.7" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Setting branch to 2.6.7″
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX $mod”
cd ${mod}
if [ $mod == "gtk-sharp" ]; then
git checkout –track -b gtk-sharp-2-12-branch origin/gtk-sharp-2-12-branch
elif [ $mod == "gnome-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gluezilla" ]; then
git checkout –track -b mono-2-6-4 origin/mono-2-6-4
elif [ $mod == "webkit-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gtkmozembed-sharp" ]; then
git checkout master
elif [ $mod == "gnome-desktop-sharp" ]; then
git checkout –track -b gnome-desktop-sharp-2-24-branch origin/gnome-desktop-sharp-2-24-branch
elif [ $mod == "mono-addins" ]; then
git checkout –track -b 0.5 origin/0.5
elif [ $mod == "monodevelop" ]; then
git checkout –track -b 2.4 origin/2.4
else
git checkout –track -b mono-2-6-7 origin/mono-2-6-7
fi
cd ..
fi
fi
done

fi

if [ "$skipbuild" ]; then
echo “$ECHO_PREFIX Skipping source update.”
else
# create enviroment files
cat > “mono-$VERSION-env” < “mono-$VERSION” < profiles/drs << EOF
main
extras/AspNetEdit
extras/GeckoWebBrowser
extras/WebKitWebBrowser
extras/MonoDevelop.Database
extras/MonoDevelop.Profiling
extras/MonoDevelop.AddinAuthoring
extras/MonoDevelop.CodeAnalysis
extras/MonoDevelop.Debugger.Mdb
extras/MonoDevelop.Debugger.Gdb
extras/PyBinding
EOF
./configure –profile=drs –prefix=$MONO_PREFIX
else
./autogen.sh –prefix=$MONO_PREFIX;
fi

if [ $pauseflag ]; then
read -p "Type 'x' to exit, press enter to make $mod." inpVar
if [ "$inpVar" == "x" ]; then
exit 1;
fi
else
echo "$ECHO_PREFIX Making $mod"
fi
make
if [ $pauseflag ]; then
read -p "Type 'x' to exit, press enter to install $mod." inpVar
if [ "$inpVar" == "x" ]; then
exit 1;
fi
else
echo "$ECHO_PREFIX Installing $mod"
fi
sudo make install || { echo "$ECHO_PREFIX ERROR: $mod failed";.cd ./ exit 1; }
cd ..
fi
done

fi

# Exit message
echo ""
echo "$ECHO_PREFIX Your parallel environment is installed"
echo "$ECHO_PREFIX To start a mono-$VERSION environment, run: source mono-$VERSION-env"
echo "$ECHO_PREFIX To use mono-$VERSION to run a cli app, run: mono-$VERSION (eg mono-$VERSION mono -V)”
echo “”

#read -p “Done.” inpVar
echo “Done”