如何在Solaris下面build Mono（How to build Mono on Solaris）

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  How to build Mono on Solaris

From Genunix

1 What is Mono? 

 

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community . Its homepage is http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page. 

 

2 Components for Mono 

 

mono: C# compiler, runtime environment etc. 

libgdiplus: GDI+ drawing api implementation for Mono 's System.Drawing. 

xsp: Standalone web server written in C# that can be used to run your ASP.NET applications. 

mod_mono: An Apache 1.3/2.0/2.2 module that provides ASP.NET support for Apache. 

gtk-sharp-1.0.10: GTK1 c# binds. 

gtk-sharp-2.4.2: GTK2(2.4) c# binds. 

gtk-sharp-2.8.2: GTK2(2.8) c# binds. 

There are other components, such as development tools. For more information please refer to its homepage. 

 

3 Where to download 

 

You can download Mono and component packages from page http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads. 

 

4 Tools to build Mono 

 

GNU tar to unpack the sources, as Solaris tar has problems unpacking Mono. 

GNU build tools, such as gcc, gld, gas etc. 

Notes: 

GCC installed in the /usr/sfw/ works fine. although gld, gas etc are not included, it seems it 's ok. 

Because make included in CBE is GNU make, so it should be ok. 

5 Build instructions 

 

libgdiplus(1.1.13.6) 

 

libgdiplus is optional, but if you need GDI+ drawing api support for Mono, you should build it. 

 

On Sparc, 

 

   configure, gmake, gmake check, gmake install

is ok. 

 

On x86, you need to change the source code according to http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2005/10/18/0013.html, because there are some problem when building included cairo . 

 

Mono(1.1.13.8) 

 

If you set your build environment properly, the build process of Mono is straight forward. 

 

On Sparc, just 

 

   configure, gmake, gmake check, gmake install

is ok. And when you do "gmake check", all check should passed(My test result:193 test(s) passed. 0 test(s) did not pass.), but the check process would fail after the test if you are not using gas. 

 

On x86, you need add "--with-tls=pthread" when you do configure to avoid error 

 

   In file included from /usr/include/link.h:35,

                    from dyn_load.c:71:

   /usr/include/libelf.h:45:2: #error "large files are not supported by libelf"

   *** Error code 1

   make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `dyn_load.lo '. 

and 

 

   Undefined                       first referenced

    symbol                             in file

   GC_local_malloc                     ./.libs/libmonoruntime.a(reflection.o)

   GC_local_malloc_atomic              ./.libs/libmonoruntime.a(object.o)

   GC_local_gcj_fast_malloc            ./.libs/libmonoruntime.a(object.o)

   GC_local_gcj_malloc                 ./.libs/libmonoruntime.a(object.o)

   ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to pedump

you also need to make some modification of the source code. Here is the patch for mono 

 

When you do "gmake check", it always fails at: 

 

   Test run: image=[path_to_mono_source]/mono/mini/exceptions.exe, opts=

I just ignored it. 

 

After you have installed mono, remember to add [dist_dir]/lib/pkgconfig to your $PKG_CONFIG_PATH to make sure all the packages depend on Mono can find it. 

 

6 Applications 

7 Problem need to be noticed when build mono with SUN Studio 

8 Usefull resources