Comments on: Compile Mono SVN Head on Windows

By: Stifu

Stifu — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:16:26 +0000

Verbose made no difference. For the record, I checked out Cygwin 1.70 beta, and it worked the same as the stable version except it actually outputs an error:

/usr/bin/make.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygintl-2.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I can indeed see I have cygintl-3 and 8, but not 2... I'll grab that DLL and see if it works!

Edit: yep, looks like the libintl2 package was left out from cygwin... I might have clicked it by mistake during the install or something.

Now for another error... 'libgthread-2.0.la' not a valid libtool archive. Great. But I'll manage.

By: Stifu

Stifu — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:16:26 +0000

By: Stifu

Stifu — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Verbose made no difference. For the record, I checked out Cygwin 1.70 beta, and it worked the same as the stable version except it actually outputs an error:

/usr/bin/make.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygint1-2.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

By: Ivan N. Zlatev

Ivan N. Zlatev — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:36:13 +0000

I have no idea what the problem might be. Try make –verbose or something.

Thanks for pointing out that the link is broken. I have no uploaded the file onto my blog and linked it directly just to make sure it doesn't go 404 again.

By: Stifu

Stifu — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:54:04 +0000

This little article has been useful to me. Thanks to you, I could submit my first Mono patch today.

However, I'm running into a problem… I closely followed your steps on 2 computers. It worked on one, but not on the other. After the autogen step (at the end of which I'm told: “Now type 'make' to compile”), the “make” command does nothing at all, it displays nothing and instantly lets you type another command. “make clean”, “make –help” and so on behave the same. I even redownloaded make 3.80 just in case, and same result. Any idea?

By the way, the link to make 3.80 above doesn't work anymore, so here's a working one for anyone interested: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/helper/make-3.80...

By: ffxi gil

ffxi gil — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:49:15 +0000

Ah, about the first post, it didn’t tell me the post had gone through, it just took me back to the original post when I submitted, so I figured it just didn’t like me. Ah well, now it’s blogged
As for the version thing, I’m talking about the xulbrowser and mono.mozilla code in the mono svn, not the xulrunner (yes, the names are a mess… :p). The problems you had with not being able to input the text are related to my code and are fixed in mono svn head.

By: _Alan_

_Alan_ — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:06:40 +0000

Woo, after 2 long hard days of trying and failing, i finally managed to compile mono for windows on windows. Only worked when i did exactly as he did, with the exact same paths. Cygwin is a monster

By: _Alan_

_Alan_ — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:06:40 +0000

Woo, after 2 long hard days of trying and failing, i finally managed to compile mono for windows on windows. Only worked when i did exactly as he did, with the exact same paths. Cygwin is a monster