mono-build provides a simple way to compile and install different versions of Mono on UNIX-like systems.
$ git clone git://github.com/dragan/mono-build.git
$ cd mono-build
$ ./install.sh
This will install mono-build into /usr/local. If you do not have write permission to /usr/local, you will need to run sudo ./install.sh instead. You can install to a different prefix by setting the PREFIX environment variable.
Included is an uninstall script as well, just run it to remove mono-build.
$ ./uninstall.sh
If you only intend to use mono-build via mope, then you can install it locally as a plugin:
$ mkdir -p ~/.mope/plugins
$ cd ~/.mope/plugins
$ git clone git://github.com/dragan/mono-build.git
To install a Mono version, run the mono-build command with the path to a definition file (A number of built-in definitions may be specified instead.) and the path where you want to install it.
$ mono-build 2.10.9 /Users/dragan/local/mono-2.10.9
...
$ /Users/dragan/local/mono-2.10.9/bin/mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.9 (tarball Wed Apr 11 15:56:53 EDT 2012)
Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Novell, Inc, Xamarin, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
...
To install a Mono version with mope:
mono-build provides a mope-install command that shortens
$ mono-build 2.10.9 /Users/dragan/local/mono-2.10.9
to
$ mope install 2.10.9
This project was heavily inspired by the ruby-build project by Sam Stephenson.
mono-build is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.