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What's worse, is that when I encounter errors, i receive almost no help on the mailing lists. Some of these are not doubt strange errors, and some are very common, but my posts go unanswered either way.

I haven't even gotten to gtk#...

Segmentation faults, bus errors, frozen compiles, etc.... The list goes on and on. I hope to come back to mono in a few months, when/if PPC support is better. But for now, I feel that it's a lost cause.

[0] http://homepage.mac.com/griffincaprio/mono/RunningMonoOnMacOSX.html

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February 25, 2004

Mono Team Meeting, March 5-6 in Cambridge Mass

On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
in Cambridge Massachusetts:

http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact

The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
well.

Todd Berman from Mono Develop will also be coming.

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January 22, 2004

Mono 0.30 Preview Release Available

The first preview in a series for the Mono 0.30 release is available
here:

http://www.go-mono.com/preview/mono-0.30.tar.gz
http://www.go-mono.com/preview/mcs-0.30.tar.gz

We are just looking for obvious problems and mistakes that might be
in there. We are hoping to make a release early next week. Please
report any compilation problems in your platform.

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January 17, 2004

mod_mono INSTALL

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo
http://www.apacheworld.org

The following are instructions for getting mod_mono working with Apache 2
and serving ASP.NET pages. This was developed in Red Hat 8.0,
using the Mono version from CVS, but it should work in any Unix platform
that Apache and Mono support. If you get to work in one of these platforms,
or Windows, please let me know, or even better send patches.

It has also been compiled and tested in Slackware 7.0 (thanks John Barbee)

The steps are as follow:
- Install mono
- Install Apache 2 with loadable module support
- Build mod_mono and ModMono.dll (or download the binaries)
- Configure Apache
- Install XSP from the Mono CVS repository
- Configure Apache
- Test the examples

There's also a section about using mod_mono with the Apache 2 that comes
with your Linux distribution. Finally, if you are using Red Hat 8.0
there's an appendix covering this platform.

mod_mono is still in its infancy and Mono is a moving target, there's still a lot to be done!
If you have suggestions, bugs or patches you can reach me at daniel @ rawbyte.com
It may take me a bit, but I try to reply to all mod_mono related email

INSTALLING FROM SOURCE
======================

1. Install Mono

For instructions, go to http://www.go-mono.com

2. Install Apache 2, with loadable module support

Go to http://www.apache.org and download Apache 2,
the filename will be something like httpd-2.0.43.tar.gz

Unpack it :

tar xvfz httpd-2.0.43.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.0.43
./configure --prefix=/home/username/apache2 --enable-so
make
make install

3. Building and installing mod_mono

Go to http://www.apacheworld.org/modmono/ and download mod_mono
(although if you are reading this you probably already did it)

tar xvfz mod_mono*.tgz
cd mod_mono*
./configure --with-apxs=/home/username/apache2/bin/apxs
make
make install

If everything goes well, you will have the following library:
/home/user/mono/mod_mono/src/.libs/libmod_mono.so

Mono needs to be correctly installed for building mod_mono, this means among other things
that pkgconfig is accessible and knows about mono (that is 'pkgconfig --cflags mono' returns
something meaningful)

NOTE:
If you installed Mono form CVS in a non standard location, you can use --with-crosspkgdir
For example: I use the following line to build:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/user/mono/install/lib/pkgconfig/ ./configure --with-apxs=/home/user/mono/install/apache2/bin/apxs --with-crosspkgdir=/home/user/mono/install/lib/pkgconfig

If it complains about config.h, copy the config.h in the mono/ directory to /home/user/mono/install/include
It will tell you about duplication, but it will compile. This should have been fixed as of Mono 0.18

4. Building ModMono.dll

The ModMono.cs file is located in the src/ directory
This is the command to build ModMono.dll:

make -f makedll.mak

INSTALLING BINARIES
========================

o Go to http://www.apacheworld.org/modmono and download the mod_mono binaries.
Currently the binary files are libmodmono.so (for Red Hat 8.0 on Intel) and ModMono.dll

USING THE APACHE 2 THAT COMES WITH YOUR DISTRIBUTION
====================================================

Newer versions of Linux distributions, such as Red Hat 8.0 come with Apache 2.
You can use this Apache: for that you need to install the apxs tool, which
is usually included in the Apache dev rpm. For example, in the case of Red Hat 8.0,
you need the following dev package installed: httpd-devel-2.0.40-8.i386.rpm

You can then build mod_mono as explained previously using

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs

Red Hat 8.0 is so common that I have included a section at the end with step by
step instructions for this platform.

ASP.NET support
===============

You need the XSP package, currently available in the Mono CVs. GO to
http://www.go-mono.com for instructions on how to download and install
the package. The rest of this document assumes it is installed in
/home/user/mono/install/xsp/

cd /home/user/mono/install/xsp/
make
make install

Now in /home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test you have a directory with ASP pages

CONFIGURING APACHE
==================

Copy the file /home/user/mono/mod_mono/src/.libs/libmod_mono.so to /home/user/mono/install/apache2/lib/
Copy ModMono.dll to a place where the Mono runtime will find it, usually this means /usr/lib/ or wherever the
rest of assemblies are located.

Edit /home/user/mono/install/apache2/conf/httpd.conf :

Listen 8080
LoadModule mono_module /home/user/mono/install/apache2/lib/libmod_mono.so
MonoApplication /mono /home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test

The MonoApplication directive takes two arguments. The first one is the virtual path, which is part
of the URL used to access your application. The second one is the physical path, the directory
where the application resides. In this case is the directory containing the XSP test pages.
Only one MonoApplication directive is currently allowed.

NOTE: If a machine.config is not installed in your path, which normally occurs during Mono installation,
you may need to create a ModMono.exe.config. This file needs to be placed in the application base dir, in this case
/home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test/
You can find an example for the contents of this file in the data/machine.config subdirectory of the Mono distribution.

You can now start Apache with
/home/user/mono/install/apache2/bin/apachectl start

TESTING THE EXAMPLES
====================

Point your web browser to

http://127.0.0.1:8080/mono/index.aspx

and you should get the example index.
If you get a Internal Server Error page instead, take a look at
/home/user/mono/install/apache2/logs/error_log
for indications of what may have gone wrong

APPENDIX: RED HAT 8.0
=====================

a) Install Mono

Install the Mono rpms from
http://www.go-mono.com/download.html

b) Install Apache

Make sure the followings rpms are installed

httpd-2.0.40-8.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.40-8.i386.rpm

You can find a copy of them at
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/httpd-2.0.40-8.i386.html
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/httpd-devel-2.0.40-8.i386.html

To install them:

rpm -i httpd-2.0.40-8.i386.rpm httpd-devel-2.0.40-8.i386.rpm

c) mod_mono

Follow the instructions at http://www.go-mono.com/anoncvs.html,
which is as follows:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.go-mono.com:/mono
cvs login
cvs -z3 co mod_mono

Now cd into the mod_mono directory

./autogen.sh --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make
make install

You need to become root (use the 'su' command) to do make install,
as it will try to copy mod_mono.so to the /usr/lib/httpd/modules/
directory

To build ModMono.dll, cd into mod_mono/src and type

make -f makedll.make
cp ModMono.dll /usr/lib/ModMono.dll

d) XSP server pages

Follow the general instructions explained earlier in the document
You need to make sure the directory where the aspx files are is writable by
the user Apache will be running as:

chown -R apache.apache /home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test

e) Configure Apache

Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and add the following:

LoadModule mono_module mod_mono.so
MonoApplication /mono /home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test

The following is a temporary hack, will not be necessary in the future:
mkdir /var/www/.wapi/
chown apache.apache /var/www/.wapi
chmod 700 /var/www/.wapi

f) Start apache

As root, type:

/etc/init.d/httpd start

g) Browse the examples

http://127.0.0.1/mono/index.aspx

If you find any problems, take a look at
/var/log/httpd/error_log and also read the
FAQ.txt document included with mod_mono

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January 16, 2004

XSP Server Install Errors

When installing the mono XSP server I get the following error:

su-2.05b# make
Making all in doc
Making all in server
Unknown modifier ','

Stop in /root/mono-install/xsp-0.8.
su-2.05b#


The fix is to use gmake instead of make. Yeah!

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January 15, 2004

MONO_PATH Environment Variables

Chris says:

I'm trying to do an install of the new monodoc-0.9 and keep getting some sort of dependency error. I do the following:

1. ./configure
2. make -> and it blows up here.

I've tried to figure this out on my own for several hours now and to my
ability it looks like everything is in the right places.

Any help is appreciated.

The message become error message and spit out this:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `gtkhtml-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `gtk-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `glade-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `glib-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `pango-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `gdk-sharp.dll'
Log:

error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `atk-sharp.dll'
Log:

Compilation failed: 7 error(s), 0 warnings
make[1]: *** [browser.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/monodoc-0.9/browser'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


This should solve the problem:

export MONO_PATH=/usr/lib

and if that fails:

export MONO_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/:lib


The key being you have to export environment variables. That's it.

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January 05, 2004

Mono 0.29, MonoDoc 0.8, XSP 0.8 and mod_mono 0.6 Released

I think I'm about a week behind here, but Miguel and the folks Ximian have released Mono 0.29. I have just successfully installed the latest FreeBSD port without a hitch. Yes there were major problems with the previous port versions, but they're all better now. Life is better with a good port maintainer. Thanks gnome_at_FreeBSD.org!

There is big breaking news: Mono JIT on PowerPC runs Hello World, ASP.NET is feature complete, AppDomain unloading is supported and 64-bit ports of HPPA and SPARCv9 are available now. A new group of developers from Mainsoft has been contributing extensively to ADO.NET and ASP.NET.

This release includes four components at once: the Runtime and Software Development Kit as well as the Documentation browser, our XSP web host for ASP.NET and the Mono/Apache module have been released. Packages for various distributions are also available from our download page.

A big push in this release has been to get closer to completion on the .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 APIs and completing pieces that we need for the Mono 1.0 release. But at the same time work continues within the safety of #ifdefs on Mono 1.1 features (integrating .NET 1.2 components).

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January 02, 2004

Compiling Mono 0.29

To get a functional Mono, the only piece you need to compile is `mono-0.29.tar.gz', the setup is very simple:

wget http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.tar.gz
tar xzvf mono-0.29.tar.gz
cd mono-0.29
./configure
make
make install


That is all you have to do.

Windows.Forms in Mono 0.29 is sadly broken (it is described on the
release notes for version 0.29). It is getting fixed, but it is not
yet ready, you will have to wait for that to actually work.

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