Mono compilation howto on Ubuntu with Stow

howto-compile-mono.txt

Compile latest Mono on Ubuntu

#1. make sure to have the universe repo, on 14.04 your /etc/apt/sources.list must look like this

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe

#2. then update your local package index by
apt-get update

#3. use stow for easier management
#stow stores packages in the directoy /usr/local/stow/package
#stow installs symlinks into /usr/local from the package directory
#example: when you have a package at /usr/local/stow/something
#         and it has one file /usr/local/stow/something/bin/test
#         then by
#         > cd /usr/local/stow
#         > stow something
#         it will place symlinks from /usr/local/bin/test -> /usr/local/stow/something/bin/test
#         removing these symlinks is done by 
#         > stow --delete something

apt-get install stow

#necessary packages for build
apt-get install mono-gmcs build-essential autoconf git libtool gettext libfontconfig-dev libglib2.0-dev

#libgdiplus dependencies
apt-get install libexif-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libglib2.0-dev libgif-dev libx11-dev


git clone https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus.git
cd libgdiplus
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install DESTDIR=~/libgdi_inst
sudo bash
mkdir /usr/local/stow/libgdiplus
sudo mv ~/libgdi_inst/usr/local/* /usr/local/stow/libgdiplus
cd /usr/local/stow
stow libgdiplus


git clone https://github.com/mono/mono.git
cd mono
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make get-monolite-latest
make EXTERNAL_MCS="${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe"
make install DESTDIR=~/mono_inst
sudo bash
mkdir /usr/local/stow/mono
mv ~/mono_inst/usr/local/* /usr/local/stow/mono
cd /usr/local/stow

#this install symlinks from /usr/local/stow/mono -> /usr/local
#this is useful, because the actual files will be separated in /usr/local/stow/mono
#you can remove the symlinks from /usr/local using stow --delete mono,
#this will not delete any files, only the simlinks
stow mono




## now for f# (work  in  progress)
git clone https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp.git
cd fsharp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install DESTDIR=~/fsharp_inst
sudo bash
mkdir /usr/local/stow/fsharp
mv ~/fsharp_inst/usr/local/* /usr/local/stow/fsharp
cd /usr/local/stow
stow fsharp