I use mono on RHEL4 with fine results. I build mine from source. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jmalcolm Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono for an older Linux RHEL4r5?
CodeSlinger wrote: > > We have an older version of Linux - Red Hat EL4r5 - also known as Update > 5, 2007-05-01. > > Do I have much of a chance running a decent version of Mono on this older > system? > You will have to wait for a more authoritative answer, but as a user of Mono on RHEL5 I can say that I see no reason why you would not be able to build and run Mono on RHEL4. I would not be surprised if there are no packages kicking around for that though. You will probably have to build from source. This could be a bit of a pain. I would expect the biggest problem to be compiling libgdiplus as it relies on quite a few graphics libraries (including Cairo). Mono almost certainly needs newer versions than you have in RHEL4. So, you will have to update these which will likely also require building from source. It may also require newer versions of automake, autoconf, or the like. libgdiplus is an implementation of GDI+ for Linux which is used to support System.Drawing. After you get libgdiplus in place, Mono should build fine I expect. If you are building Mono 2.8+ you will not have to worry about what version of glib2 you have installed as Mono now uses the built-in eglib instead. I think maybe the only other thing you might need is bison. If you want to run asp.net stuff you may run into an issue with the age of your Apache install as well but I am not sure about that either. Note, I have not tried to build Mono on RHEL4 myself. Mono works very well with RHEL5 if you are looking for an excuse to upgrade. CodeSlinger wrote: > > > I'm a Windows .NET developer and know some but not a lot about Linux. > Would the installation of Mono on our system impact any kernel stuff or > does it install in such a manner [perhaps just accessing a separate > directory] that the production guys won't freak out about adding Mono to > their system? > > Thanks, Dave > Mono does not impact the kernel at all. It runs 100% in user space. What your production guys will or will not freak out about is hard to know of course. If you specify "--prefix=/usr" when you build Mono almost everything will end up in "/usr/lib/mono". I think the default is "/usr/local/lib/mono" if you do not specify anything. -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Mono-for-an-older-Linux-RHEL4r5-tp3089477p3090218.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
