Installation on Windows

by Hinne Hettema, Jaime Anguiano Olarra and Johannes Roith (johannes@jroith.de)

Contents

Obtaining Mono

In order to obtain the required software you just need to visit the Mono download page at http://www.go-mono.org/download or any of the related sites.

You'll be able to complete everything in this document if you just install the runtime, but taking a look at the compiler package is well worth the effort. The compiler is written in C# and is 'self hosting' which means it is able to compile itself.

This page also lists the current versions of the software mono depends on. Make sure that your system has all the required versions, otherwise mono won't compile.

Installing Mono on Windows, the easy way

Oh. This is a very easy task now. If you just want to take a look at the possibilities of Mono get the Mono installer from the site of Johannes Roith <johannes@jroith.de>:

http://mono.jroith.de. You can get a link in

the download section of the Mono site too: http://www.go-mono.org/download

Then you just need a Windows machine. Better use Windows 2000 Professional, NT4 or XP.

Once you've got it, run the installer.

Remember, building your own Mono runtime and compiler from the sources is strongly recommended. You won't discover the power of Mono until you get it made this way. If you feel hungry about real programming with Mono, proceed like in the next section.

Building Mono under Windows

Troubleshooting

If you have noticed problems during step 8 and the execution stops because of errors as I cannot find that or such library or alike, try to: