MacPorts does not recognize compiled mono

[Bart Masschelein]

Thanks, that explains it. I took the easy way out: I still have my  
compiled version of mono in /usr/local, and I installed other  
packages, like gtk-sharp, using MacPorts. Taking care my environment  
variables are ok, this works. Of course, now I have two mono versions,  
but the MacPorts one is only used for MacPorts packages. I use the / 
usr/local one.

Anyway, to solve the problem that the compiled mono does not have the  
gtk-sharp/pango-sharp etc in its gac, I simply use the gacutil tool to  
add them all to the compiled mono. These are the ones required for  
running MonoDevelop, for instance:

   502  sudo gacutil -i /opt/local/lib/mono/gac/gtk-sharp/ 
2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f/gtk-sharp.dll
   505  sudo gacutil -i /opt/local/lib/mono/gac/glib-sharp/ 
2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f/glib-sharp.dll
   507  sudo gacutil -i /opt/local/lib/mono/gac/atk-sharp/ 
2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f/atk-sharp.dll
   509  sudo gacutil -i /opt/local/lib/mono/gac/gdk-sharp/ 
2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f/gdk-sharp.dll
   511  sudo gacutil -i /opt/local/lib/mono/gac/pango-sharp/ 
2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f/pango-sharp.dll

Saves me the 'trouble' to create my own mono-devel port. In a later  
stage I might have a look at contributing to such a port, but first I  
will play a bit with those features I needed from the trunk mono ;-).

Cheers, Bart

On 21 Nov 2008, at 01:21, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2008, at 17:39, Bart Masschelein wrote:
>
>> I need some features of mono that are only available from trunk, so  
>> I uninstalled mono 2.0.1 from MacPorts, and compiled/installed mono  
>> from the trunk. This worked out fine, and I have mono/mcs/ 
>> gacutil/... available in my Terminal. Now I would like to reinstall  
>> the dependencies to install MonoDevelop, among which gtk-sharp2 and  
>> mono-addins.  But MacPorts fails to recognize the mono install,  
>> reporting the following during the configuration phase:
>>
>> checking for mcs... no
>> configure: error: mcs Not found
>>
>> What is the problem here?
>
> MacPorts is designed to only use other software that's been  
> installed by MacPorts. (There are a few exceptions, like Xcode and  
> X11.)
>
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries
>
> You could create a private mono-devel port on your computer to  
> install the latest development version of mono. Then you'd also have  
> to modify all the ports that depend on port:mono to instead depend  
> on a file that both mono and mono-devel provide, e.g. use path:bin/ 
> mono:mono.
>