Comments on: Building Mono 2.4 from source on Ubuntu 8.10

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:21 +0000

Oops! Had an old env variable for GTK_SHARPLIBS.

Works great now! Thanks for the awesome tutorial.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:22:04 +0000

I cannot seem to shake this error no matter what I do when compiling gnome-sharp-2.20.1 using your guide:

error CS2001: Source file `/opt/mono-2.4/lib/gtk-sharp-2.0/’ could not be found

I compiled and installed gtk-sharp first using the same –prefix flag, all as a normal user (except installing under sudo). The directory /opt/mono-2.4/lib/gtk-sharp-2.0/ does exist. I tried chowning to the user running make, then chmodding 775, then 777, then all of mono-2.4 777, then all of /opt 777 and nothing will allow gnome-sharp to find this dir during make. Any clues?

By: Luqash

Luqash — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:55:05 +0000

Really great guide! I compiled monodevelop from SVN and it’s running great.

Luqash from Slovakia

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C# 3.5 in Ubuntu – Anay Kamat's Weblog — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:29:02 +0000

[...] 2.4 in Ubuntu 9.04 without affecting Ubuntu's default mono installation. Thanks to the instructions here (Building Mono 2.4 from source on Ubuntu 8.10), I was able to install latest mono/monodevelop in a parallel environment. Now I can work on C# 3.5 [...]

By: Patch for Monodevelop 2.0 debugger for Mono 2.4.2.2 - centriment

Patch for Monodevelop 2.0 debugger for Mono 2.4.2.2 - centriment — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:28:20 +0000

[...] while ago I posted a how-to on compiling Mono 2.4 from source on Ubuntu. After the release of a minor version update for mono, [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:28:09 +0000

Thx Jan, it works. Btw thx for great guide

Beside i still have error and monodevelop crashes during saving… ehh
I’ve got something like (sometimes) “resource temporarily unavailable on x server 0.0″ and i saw this error was noticed in earlier versions of MD and seemed to be fixed… but as i see now it’s still alive…

By: Jan Dzik

Jan Dzik — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:48:30 +0000

Hi! First of all, sorry for taking a while to address this issue. I updated my system to mono 2.4.2.2 and can confirm that this is a bug. The debian mono packaging team say seems to have solved the issue http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536902 and provide updated packages for monodevelop. You could try to install these (unstable) packages instead of doing your own compilation.

However, for those who do not want to wait for the next stable deb package (including myself), I think i found my way around the bug. The solution involves patching the monodevelop-debugger-mdb-2.0 source code by altering just two lines of code. I’ll explain what to do here manually, until I make a patch and post it here.

Go to where you have extracted the monodevelop-debugger-mdb-2.0.tar.bz2 source package (e.g. ~/src/mono-2.4.2.2/monodevelop-debugger-mdb-2.0). Go to the directory Mono.Debugging.Server.Mdb and open the file RuntimeInvokeManager.cs. Comment out the lines 56,57 and 77,78. Configure and compile as usual and it should work.

Now, this is just a quick and dirty solution. It compiles and I have tried debugging a simple console project in monodevelop and it seemed to be working. However, it needs more thorough testing so please give feedback.

I’ll make a patch for this and post in a new blogpost soon explaining the process as soon as possible.

By: boykadyot

boykadyot — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:14:14 +0000

by the way, i’m using ubuntu 8.10 amd64 desktop

By: boykadyot

boykadyot — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:12:50 +0000

have the same trouble as above…
Everything compiled well, except monodevelop-debugger-mdb…
Is there any solution?

plz. I need the debugging.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:13:47 +0000

now my browser refreshes to show another comment explaining its a bug, I’ll wait patiently.. =)