On 03/06/03 Graham Allwood wrote: > I'm really keen on contributing (if I get the time) but I need to get the > environment right. I'm a windows .net developer so would feel more at home > in Windows. I take it that there aren't enough GNU build tools available for > Windows to eliminate Cygwin are there? I've been trying for a while now to > get Cygwin to build MONO from the scripts but there's always something > wrong.
I used the script and it worked for me, if you get errors, you should file bug reports about them or (better) send patches to fix them. > This may be a na�ve question but why is it so complicated building MONO? I > mean these all these utilities used like configure, automake (or something). It works flawlessly on linux, though I agree cygwin is not always a perfect fit for reproducing a unixy environment on windows. The windows programmers that want to use a different build process are welcome to contribute an nmake makefile or whatever they think makes the build process in windows easier for them. So far I think nobody stepped up to contribute that; if we missed a patch that does that, please remind us so that we can include it in the tarballs and in cvs. > Final question (for now), why can't both the Windows and Unix builds use the > same Nant file? Well, I think the question should be: why can't the windows build use makefiles? :-) Part of the reason is that until recently mono couldn't run nant, but even now, I wouldn't switch the build to use nant on unix, because I find makefiles so much nicer, both to maintain and to use. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
