* Software Availability

	The Virtual Execution System is available in package `mono'.
	Currently this contains a metadata library and the
	disassembler.  Please refer to our <a
	href="runtime.html">Runtime</a> description for more details
	on this part of the project.

	The code for the C# compiler as well as the language error
	test suite and the class library are in the `mcs' package, we
	will move this later into `mono' itself. 

	<b>Note: (Beginners read!)</b> There are a couple of documents you
	should read before going ahead. You can reach them in the 
	<a href="http://www.go-mono.org/mono-beginning.html">Resources/Beginning 	section</a>. And the <a href="http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html">FAQ</a> 
	and the <a href="http://geneura.ugr.es/~jaime/deploy/mono-common-problems.html">
	Mono Common Problems</a>. Might be useful too. Take the Mono Beginners
	HOWTO for your system and proceed as it's described there.


<a name="sources">
*** Sources

	Stay up to date on the Mono team's development using the 
	<a href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-cvs-list">
	mono-cvs-list</a> mailing list.  The CVS source code can also
	be browsed <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=Mono#dirlist">here</a>

<a name="jun-7">
	<b>Mono 0.13</b>

	New packaged versions of the Mono C# compiler and Mono runtime
	are now available.  The latest version is 0.13.

	<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.13">Mono 0.13 release notes</a>

		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">mcs-0.13.tar.gz</a>
		Mono C# compiler with class library source code.

		* <a href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">mono-0.13.tar.gz</a>
		Mono runtime.
	</ul>

* Snapshots	

	Already daily volunteer's made binaries:

	<ul>
		* <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono">Debian Linux</a>
      	 	
		* <a href="http://noa.tm/mono/">Red Hat (and RPM based systems)</a>
		* <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> (works without cygwin!)
	</ul>

	<b>Note1:</b> Don't look for the Mono BaseLabs RPMs; they are not providing it
	anymore.<br> 
	<b>Note2:</b> You will find that you can get binaries for the gtk-sharp 
	package too. 

<a name="snapshots">
	For up to date sources, it is recommended that you use the Mono 
	source code from either the 
	<a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshots</a> or 
	the <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly
	snapshots are done every night at 10pm EST (Boston Time).
	The anoncvs mirrors provided by Hispalinux are updated every six
	hours.

	The nightly snapshots are not guaranteed to build, but most of the 
	time they should.  They should give you a window to see what we are 
	up to.

	There are scripts to help build mono for both Unix and Windows.  Get
	<a href="mono-build.sh">mono-build.sh</a> for Unix, or <a
	href="mono-build-w32.sh">mono-build-w32.sh</a> for Windows.
	These scripts automate the installation of GLIB and pkgconfig
	(building from source on Unix, and using binary packages
	provided by the GIMP for Windows project on Windows.)  To use
	the script, follow these simple steps:

	<ul>
		* Save the script for your platform somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
		* Make the script executable (i.e chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
		* Create a directory to hold the mono source, and the compiled binaries (e.g. mkdir ~/mono)
		* Change to the new directory (i.e. cd ~/mono)
		* run the script (i.e. /usr/local/bin/mono-build.sh)
	</ul>

	The script requires wget on either platform, and building the
	software requires make, gcc, automake, autoconf, and libtool.
	You should install these packages from your distribution or
	with the cygwin installer. You should also take care of setting
	the right environment variables as the PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS, etc.

	The script will download required packages from
	www.go-mono.com and do a cvs checkout of mono in the current
	directory.  <b>IMPORTANT!:</b> The cvs server chosen defaults to 
	anonymous cvs;
	set your CVSROOT environment variable before running the script to
	select a particular cvs server.

** Mono Regression Test Suite

	You can get binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite <a
	href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">here</a>
	
<a name="install">
** Building the software manually

*** Building on Linux

	<ul>

		You can build mono and mcs in Linux but to do that be
		sure to obtain the corlib.dll and install it before
		trying to compile. 

		In linux be sure you get <a href="http://www.gtk.org">glib2.0</a> 
		(>= 2.0.4, 2.0.6 
		recomended) and <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> 0.80. 
		Also the corresponding development packages for those as
		well as the GNU Build Tools (make, autoconf...).
		Then download the mono packages and compile them.
		You must start compiling mcs and then mono.
		Be sure you set all the environment variables before
		compiling. You can use pkg-config --list-all to see
		if you forgot to set some of them.

		Normally you should enter:
		export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"
		if your install prefix is /usr/local.

		If you downloaded the Mono nightly snapshots, untar the 
		snapshot. 

		Change directories to "<strong>mcs</strong>". 

		Configure, compile and install: 

		<pre>
		<strong>./configure
		make
		make install</strong></pre>

		Do the same in the "<strong>mono</strong>" directory.	

	
*** On Windows, to install and work on the compiler and the class libraries:

**** Install Cygwin and the GNU build tools, Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK and the precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config libraries.

	<ul>

		* Install <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.

		* Install <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
		  Microsoft .NET Framework SDK</a>.

		* Change to the <strong>/usr/local</strong> directory
		  of your Cygwin installation.<br>
		  Unzip the precompiled packages listed above.

	</ul>
	<ul>
		
		* If you downloaded the Mono 
		<a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
		</a>, untar the snapshot.

		* Change directories to <strong>"mcs"</strong>.

		* Compile:
		
		<pre>
		<strong>make windows</strong>
		</pre>

*** On Windows, to compile the mono runtime:

	<ul>
		
		* If you downloaded the Mono 
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">nightly snapshot
		  </a>, untar the snapshot.

		* Change directories to <strong>"mono"</strong>.

		* Configure, compile and install:
		<pre><strong>
		./configure --prefix=c:/mono
		make
		make install
		</strong></pre>

	</ul>

* Software resources, notes and old releases:

		The required and additional software can be downloaded here:

		* Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK from 
		  <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads">
		  msdn.microsoft.com/downloads</a>.

		* Cygwin and the GNU Make tools from  
		  <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">www.cygwin.com</a>.
		  Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing 
		  autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases.

		* Precompiled GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config packages (and
		  their dependencies) by the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//index.html">GIMP for Windows</a> project from
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/pkgconfig-0.80-tml-20020101.zip</a>
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a>
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/glib-dev-1.3.12-20020101.zip</a>
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-1.7.zip</a>
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libiconv-dev-1.7-20020101.zip</a>
		  <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip">http://www.go-mono.com/archive/libintl-0.10.40-20020101.zip</a>

		* Download the Mono source code from the
		  <a href="#feb-11">packaged versions</a> or
		  the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/snapshots">
		  nightly snapshots</a> or the <a href="anoncvs.html">
		  Anonymous CVS</a>.  The nightly snapshots are done every 
		  night at 10pm EST (Boston Time). The nightly snapshots are 
		  not guaranteed to build, but most of the time they should.


	</ul>


*** Notes on compiling GLIB 2.0 and pkg-config from source:


	<ul>

		* Some people observed problems with autoconf 2.52. Installing 
		  autoconf 2.13 helped in those cases (don't forget to do a
		  `make maintainer-clean' after the update).

		* Download, compile and install <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig">pkg-config</a> from source.
                  (I had to change line 674 of
                  <nobr><tt>pkg-config-0.8.0/glib-1.2.8/gstrfuncs.c</tt></nobr> from 
		  <nobr><tt>extern char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr> to
		  <nobr><tt>extern const char *strsignal (int sig);</tt></nobr>.

<pre><strong>
tar xzvf pkg-config-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd pkg-config-0.8.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install</strong>
</pre>

		* Download, compile and install <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.7.tar.gz">libiconv</a> from source.<br>
		  If you dont have MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 you can also try
		  the binary package available at <a
		  href="http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip">
		  http://www.gimp.org/win32/libiconv-dev-20001007.zip</a>.

 
		* Download, compile and install the 
		  <a href="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/glib-2.0.6.tar.gz">
		  glib 2.0</a> from source.

	</ul>


<a name="oldreleases">

*** Old releases.

	<ul>

	<ul>
	<a name="apr-24">
	<b>Mono 0.11; April 24, 2002</b>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Mono 0.11 release notes</a>

		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">mcs-0.11.tar.gz</a>
		Mono C# compiler
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">mono-0.11.tar.gz</a>
		Mono runtime
	</ul>

	<ul>	
	<a name="mar-27">
	<b>Mono 0.10; March 27, 2002</b>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Mono 0.10 release notes</a>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">mcs-0.10.tar.gz</a>
		Mono C# compiler
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">mono-0.10.tar.gz</a>
		Mono runtime
	</ul>
	
	<ul>
	<a name="feb-22">
	<b>Mono 0.9; February 22, 2002</b>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.9">Mono 0.9 release notes</a>

		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">mcs-0.9.tar.gz</a>
		Mono C# compiler
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">mono-0.9.tar.gz</a>
		Mono runtime
	</ul>
	
		<a name="feb-11">
		<b>February 11, 2002</b>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">mcs-0.8.tar.gz</a>
		Mono C# compiler
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">mono-0.8.tar.gz</a>
		Mono runtime
		</ul>

		<a name="sep-18">
		<b>September 18, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz">mono-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.7 release.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz">mcs-0.7.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.7 release.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

		<a name="august-22">
		<b>August 22, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.6.tar.gz">mono-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.6 release.
		* <a href="archive/mono-compiler-classes-0.6.tar.gz">mono-compiler-classes-0.6.tar.gz</a>: Mono Compiler and Classes 0.6 release.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.6">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

	
	 	<a name="july-29">
		<b>July 29, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.5.tar.gz">mono-0.5.tar.gz</a>: Mono Runtime 0.5 release.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.5">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

	
		<a name="july-22">
		<b>July 22, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-22-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-22-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 19</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-22">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

		<a name="july-19">
		<b>July 19th, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-19-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-17-Jul-19-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 17</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-19">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

		<a name="july-17">
		<b>July 17th, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-17-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-Jul-15-Jul-17-2001.tar.gz">Differences since 15</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mcs-17">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

		<a name="july-15">
		<b>July 15th, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-15-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.4.tar.gz">mono-0.4.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.4">Release Notes.</a>
		</ul>

		<a name="july-14">
		<b>July 14th, 2001</b>
		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-12-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS snapshot.
		* <a href="archive/mono-0.3.tar.gz">mono-0.3.tar.gz</a>: Packaged Source Code.
		</ul>

		<a name="july-8">
		<b>July 8th, 2001</b>

		<ul>
		* <a href="archive/mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mcs-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
		* <a href="archive/mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz">mono-08-Jul-2001.tar.gz</a>: CVS Snapshot
		</ul>
	</ul>

