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I am trying to install Mono from source (because in the future I will need to fix a bug in it).

PROBLEM: The compiled Mono does not behave properly.

Note: http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_From_Git is not the whole answer. SparkleShare runs fine on Ubuntu's packaged Mono, but I get a TypeLoadException after following the instructions on that page, so some DLL settings or something need to be configured too (confirmed on IRC), but I can't find a complete documentation, that is why I ask here.

I also tried this:

  1. Install Ubuntu 2012.04 (Mono is not installed by default)
  2. sudo apt-get install curl git
  3. Compile+Install Mono 2.11 using this automatic script

I am testing with SparkleShare.
Installing the .deb package would retrieve Ubuntu's Mono package (which I don't want).
Building SparkleShare on the machine itself fails saying Package requirements (mono >= 2.8) were not met).
So I just ransudo make install` after having compiled on a machine.

When I run it (mono bin/SparkleShare.exe):

A type load exception has occurred. at SparkleShare.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

The exact same thing works fine if I use Ubuntu's Mono instead of the built-from-source Mono.

Nicolas Raoul
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I ended up rebuilding the source package, using the instructions given in the question How do I rebuild a package to include debugging information?

As a bonus, I get debugging information :-)

Then I can modify the Mono source that has been downloaded in step 3, and re-run from step 3 to have my modified Mono.

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Nicolas Raoul
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