Hi All, I need some help getting a SVN compile on Mac OS X going. My latest project will be a very simple ASP.NET MVC site. It's perfect to try a soup to nuts development lifecycle using strictly Mono and MonoDevelop.
Here's what I have so far: 1. Mac OS X with Mono 2.4.2.1 official binary installation installed in /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.4.2.1 2. Macports with a bunch of libraries placed in /opt/local 3. Fresh SVN sources of the mono, mcs, and libgdiplus modules. What I'd like to do: Get a successful build of Mono, XSP, and MonoDevelop from SVN while maintaining the official Mono binary release in parallel. I'm attempting to put the source build into /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/svn. I should be able to easily switch between the two at will - I see there's a soft link at /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current which points to /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.4.2.1. I'd like to simply update the link to point at the /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/svn directory when I want to switch. However, there are also a bunch of binaries in /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands which are not links and therefore I assume are a little more difficult to switch at will. The optimal solution would be to use the libraries installed by macports in /opt/local (things like gettext and libtool). So far I have been unsuccessful. So I tried compiling each dependency by hand a la http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_on_OSX but still no joy. I'm currently stuck while trying to configure glib: configure: error: *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the *** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html This happens regardless of whether I set CPPFLAGS to include the macports headers for gettext or my personally compiled version of gettext which I placed in /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/svn. But, as stated above, I'd much prefer using macports version of these libs. Would someone please give me some general guidance to get this going? And not to add any bribes or anything, but I intend to blog a howto on both getting the environment setup as above but also the overall development experience with MonoDevelop + ASP.NET MVC + Mac OS X. Thanks. -Abe _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
