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MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop is a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) for mono and Gtk#. See http://www.monodevelop.com for more info.

Directory organization

There are two main directories:

  * main: The core MonoDevelop assemblies and add-ins (all in a single
    tarball/package).
  * extras: Additional add-ins (each add-in has its own
    tarball/package).

Compiling

To compile execute:

./configure
make

There are two variables you can set when running 'configure':

  --prefix=/path/to/prefix: To set the install prefix.

    you can use --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix mono` to get MD
    installed with the rest of mono/gtk-sharp/etc.

  --profile=profile-name: To choose one build profile.

There are some predefined profiles:

  * stable: builds the MonoDevelop core and some stable extra add-ins.
  * core: builds the MonoDevelop core only.
  * all: builds everything

You can create your own profiles if you need to. To create a profile you
only have to add a file to the profiles directory containing a list
of the directories to build.

You can run MonoDevelop from the build directory without having to
install it by executing:

make run

Installing

Installing is currently optional.
(Use make run to use MonoDevelop without installing.)

make install

(It's possible that you need to install for your locale to be
correctly set.)

Packaging for OSX

To package MonoDevelop for OSX in a convenient MonoDevelop.app
file, just do this after MonoDevelop has finished building (with
make):

	cd main/build/MacOSX
	make MonoDevelop.app

Dependencies

Mono >= 1.1.10
Gtk# >= 2.8.0
monodoc >= 1.0
gtksourceview-sharp >= 0.10
mono-addins >= 0.3

References

MonoDevelop web site
http://www.monodevelop.com

Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/

freedesktop.org standards
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/

Integrating with GNOME (a little out of date)
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/integrating_gnome.html

Bugzilla
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bugwritinghelp.html
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Discussion, Bugs, Patches

[email protected] (questions and discussion)
[email protected] (track commits to MonoDevelop)
[email protected] (track MonoDevelop bugzilla component)
http://bugzilla.novell.com (submit bugs and patches here)