Mono on TinyCore

[RexWhitten]

I am currently working on compiling and installing mono on Tiny Core. Its been a bit daunting thus far, but i want to create a list of notes and procedures for doing so, as mono compilation and installation documentation is very weak. I feel that TinyCore is a great platform for mono, and TinyCore's small footprint and 'uncluttered-ness' will make it a great platform for Developers used to mono (and .NET) to dive into.

IF anyone is interested on my notes/experiences thus far i would be glad to share them. I would also like to work with someone to get make Mono a TCE for an easy integration into Tiny Core.

Currently my woo's are with the compilation of Mono. As Tiny Core seems to lock up during a compile.  My Tiny Core instance is currently running with 2 GB of ram.

I would also like any feedback from the community if anyone has tried to do the same so far.

Good Stuff TinyCore!

[curaga]

Try enabling swap, or compiling on a hard drive. The hang is likely running out of ram.

[RexWhitten]

Thanks for the advice. That is exactly what it was.

 I was mistaken in the amount of ram i was working with. I was compiling with 1024 MB, and i bumped it to 2048 MB and it is working just fine 

[dentonlt]

Hey, Rex. Did you have any luck finishing that? I had started a Go Open Office build awhile back, but decided not to when I discovered I'd have to do the Mono build ...

I'd be much interested!

[kavierim]

I try to compile Mono (.net) to TC too.
Here is list of depends what is needed for compile Mono (via Appbrowser):
- base-dev
- make
- pkg-config
- gcc
- bison
- binutils
- gettext
- glib2-dev
- glib2
- autoconf
- automake
- libtool
- sed
- m4
- perl_xml_parser

Still I have problem to finish the compiling. I will got error that 'mcs' or 'gmcs' don't found. I think that I have some miss understanding with compiling process.

I have tryed with tarball and SVN.

With openSUSE distro I can get successful build.

[Juanito]

according to debian, "mcs" is contained in a package named something like "mono_1.9.1+dfsg.tar.gz"?

[kavierim]

Now I found how to build and install mono 2.6.x to TC.

First install packages - base-dev, make, pkg-config, gcc, bison, binutils, gettext, glib2-dev, glib2

then

wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.6.1.tar.bz2
tar xjvf mono-2.6.1.tar.bz2
cd mono-2.6.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-mcs-build
make
make install

but still I have to study how I can build mcs part.

[RexWhitten]

To All,

yes i did get it to build finally. However, i have not been able to test it. The first time i built it, i forgot to persist my changes to the hard drive. It did take a while for it to compile though. All of the libraries above are correct for building mono.

As a short cut, you can use the App Browser to get CodeBlocks IDE and it contains these (I am 90% sure about that). 

I will keep you informed.

[jur]

I am eagerly awaiting the positive outcome of this...

[pmtuan]

mono+gtk-sharp.tcz is completed, it takes about 36Mb. 

[jur]

mono+gtk-sharp.tcz is completed, it takes about 36Mb. 

Are you going to submit it to the repo so we can test it?

[jairobca]

Please upload to Repository of Extensions to test, or public link for download 

[Jason W]

Submit instead of posting  a link as links to extensions are against TC forum policy.

Thanks.

[flip]

I can't find the posted mono. Could someone please let me know where to look? Or... Is it possible to test this some other way?

[RexWhitten]

It would appear that it does not appear yet as a TCE.