I am glad to see others trying to build a Mono for Windows Installer.
Removing un-needed static libraries could make the installer much smaller.
Unless, you are doing embedded. Well, if you are doing embedded, you are most
likely building mono yourself anyways. Mono's static library is huge.
Usually on Windows, these static libraries would have a .lib extension, but
since these libraries were originally built using gcc, they probably have a .a
or .dll.a extension. If you include glib/gtk 2.0, there are static libraries
there we do not need for gtk+ libraries. However, keep those static libraries
which can help re-building mono from git.
We could also save space in the installer if we only include the latest 4.5
profile. Another words, remove 2.0, 3.5, and 4.0..
Just my 2 cents.
From: Alex J Lennon <ajlen...@dynamicdevices.co.uk>
To: Alexander Köplinger <alex.koeplin...@outlook.com>
Cc: "mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com" <mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Building Mono on Windows - And Having a Windows
Installer again
Hi Alex
On 30/11/2014 15:09, Alexander Köplinger wrote:
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Hey Alex,
Jo Shields is currently working on revamping the Windows Installer in his
repo: https://github.com/directhex/newbuilder
I contributed the WiX setup files for creating an MSI installer. Jo sent me
this link for a preview build (the usual caveats apply):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz6-k9ELOQf3YTE1RHV3Y0dNaFU/view
That sounds great. Maybe I will try to bolt that onto the Appveyor script
then. I'd love for the CI builds to just result in an MSI anybody can grab and
use easily.
Btw. while developing the WiX setup I used the binaries from your AppVeyor
build, it all worked fine :)
Really good to hear that thanks Alex :)
Can you maybe also make changes to
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/compiling-mono/windows/ (just click the "edit
page on github" link), so it reflects what is necessary right now to build Mono
on Windows? I think that page is pretty outdated right now.
Yes it's definitely on my TODO list. I was hoping to grab the content of my
CodeProject article and massage it into that page. Things have just been so
hectic here I haven't had the chance yet :)
Cheers,
Alex
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