I'm asking the cygwinports list first, because my hunting seems to hint that at one point, mono was available under cygwinports, but I haven't found any details. I'm hoping someone can either give me a useful hint, or perhaps point me at a useful resource.
I have a mono program (f-spot) which I'd like to get running under Windows. There are some dependencies which do not have native windows ports (dbus, for example) so I'd like to see if I can possibly get it working under cygwin. However, I'm getting stuck pretty early in the process. I've found various web pages purporting to give instructions for compiling mono under cygwin, but they give conflicting information, and so far, none I've tried has worked. I suspect part of the problem is they are all from different times, and so different version combinations of mono and cygwin. The underlying issue always seems to be some conflict between windows and posix paths. The first issue is what prefix to give to mono. Some sites suggest a short windows path (H:\MonoInstall) for example, and one site had you later bind mount this to /usr/local. However, some part of the compile always trips over the windows path, often trying to put a windows drive (H:) in front of a posix path (/usr/local/...) giving (H:/usr/local/...) which won't work for anyone. Using prefix=/usr/local lets me compile and install, but later, compiling gtk-sharp, some of the utilities seem to expect Windows paths as arguments. Note that if I just do ./configure for mono, it only outputs a few lines, and then says to do ./compile --host=x86-pc-mingw32. As I understand it, this will produce mono native windows executables, which is not what I want. I really do want everything to run under cygwin. However, explicitly using any other host just tells me to use mingw32. I've avoided giving specific error messages, because every one I've tried to deal with just seems to lead me down a rabbit hole of twisty little passages. I've also tried so many variations, I'm no longer sure which try produced which error. Thanks for any suggestions or hints. Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list Cygwin-ports-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
