Building mono 2.8 under Windows

Question

While trying to compile the mono 2.8 sources under VS2010 i am getting following errors:

build only mono project:

error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libmono.lib' \msvc\LINK mono

IntelliSense: cannot open source file "glib.h" \metadata\lock-tracer.h

build complete mono solution:

\mono\profiler\mono-profiler-logging.c(9): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config.h': No such file or directory

\mono\profiler\mono-cov.c(7): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'mono/metadata/profiler.h': No such file or directory

\mono\utils\monobitset.c(1): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'glib.h': No such file or directory

Answer 1

Likely the msvc build is broken. This happens frequently as no one on the Mono team tests their changes with Microsoft's compiler.

The msvc build is mainly maintained by an awesome contributor, but he only fixes it he gets the time.