Build MonoDevelop + MonoMac on OS X

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I'm following the instructions from here to build MonoDevelop on Mac OS X: Building MonoDevelop on OS X

I can build MonoDevelop just fine. I'd like to also build the MonoMac add in and use it.

The document says:

"To include addins from extras, manually copy their build directories into the MonoDevelop.app directory, e.g.

cp -r ../../../extras/MonoDevelop.AspNet.Mvc/build/* MonoDevelop.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/monodevelop/AddIns/MonoDevelop.AspNet.Mvc/"

However, I have no build directory under /extras/MonoDevelop.MonoMac.

I tried to follow this step to build extras:

"To include additional addins from extras in the build, instead of using the Mac profile, use configure --select to select addins. This will write the default profile. Next, replace the line in profiles/default that begins with "main" with the one from profiles/mac, then run configure again using the default profile."

But it does not give me the option to build the MonoMac extra.

Next, I try to compile the monodevelop.mdw. Again, I can build the main solution (MonoDevelop), but the extras fails with over 1000 errors.

Finally, I tried to take my existing monomac and macdev plugins and copy them into my master monodevelop.app bundle. But this breaks add solution/project dialog whenever I try to select a MonoMac project - it fails to load the Monodevelop.ide DLL.

Any advice on where I am going wrong would be appreciated.

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1 Answers

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I was not able to make this work following the directions on the MonoDevelop site. Even manually adding the extras/MonoDevelop.MonoMac extra to the profile did not work.

In the end, I build MonoDevelop from source, using the mac profile.

Then I got the latest MonoMac pieces, and build them from source. I used

make update

to install into my installed copy of MonoDevelop.

Then, I manually copied the following packages from my installed MonoDevelop to my newly compiled version from master:

  • MacPlatform.dll
  • MonoDevelop.iPhone
  • MonoDevelop.MacDev
  • MonoDevelop.MonoMac
  • Xamarin.Ide

Any everything now works :)