How to compile Mono with vb.net support

Question

I've downloaded latest source from mono project, compiled it and everything works (c# projects, mod_mono, xsp) except vb.net. Vbnc, mono's vb.net compiler does not exist after compiling mono from source.

This is on CentOS 5, on Ubuntu 10.04 I installed mono packages via apt-get and vb.net just works.

What am I missing, or how to get vb.net support?

Answer 1

Mono's VB.Net support is in a separate module.

Either download the 'mono-basic' tarball: http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/

or get it directly from SVN: http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/mono-basic/

or you can simply copy over what you need from a working system, like vbnc.exe and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll.