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freedesktop.org standards http://freedesktop.org/Standards/ Integrating with GNOME (a little out of date) http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/integrating_gnome.html Bugzilla http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bugwritinghelp.html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 ------------------------- monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com (questions and discussion) monodevelop-patches-list@lists.ximian.com (track commits to MonoDevelop) monodevelop-bugs@lists.ximian.com (track MonoDevelop bugzilla component) http://bugzilla.novell.com (submit bugs and patches here)