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Vladimir Shiyanov
Vladimir Shiyanov

Reputation: 1396

"configure: error: mcs Not found" during configure mono-addins on CentOS

I'm trying to install MonoDevelop 4 on CentOS 7 as described in this post: Install Mono and Monodevelop on CentOS 5.x/6.x, but when I'm trying to execute ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr in mono-addins src directory, I get the error: 

Running autoconf ...
Running ./configure --prefix=/usr ...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '0' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '0' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for gmcs... no
configure: error: mcs Not found

mcs compiler was installed successfully, and if I execute

mcs --version

it returns

Mono C# compiler version 4.0.3.0

In other examples of autoconf output I see that checking for gmcs returns something like /usr/local/bin/gmcs or /usr/bin/gmcs, but on my system after compiling mono I don't have gmcs at all.

What is the difference between mcs and gmcs, and where can I find second?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6071

Answers (2)

Adeel Raza Azeemi
Adeel Raza Azeemi

Reputation: 793

I uses Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS; and it also does not have mcs. I actaully needed it for bless. so I install mcs using

sudo apt install mono-mcs

so now

which mcs

now returns /usr/bin/mcs

For bless to work you also need to install cmake; using

sudo apt inztall cmake gtk-sharp2 nunit-console xsltproc

and follow the instruction in the readme file to install bless; i.e.

git clone https://github.com/afrantzis/bless
meson setup build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Upvotes: 0

mtrepid
mtrepid

Reputation: 21

mono-gmcs was an interim compiler before moving to mcs. I ran into this problem ("configure: error: No gmcs C# compiler found") while trying to install Bless (a mono/C# hex editor) on Centos 7. Not sure if this is the answer on other distros, but I added a symbolic link with ln -s mcs gmcs, so that the script that is looking for gmcs will find it, but it will redirect to mcs, the current mono C# compiler. Both should be in /usr/local. For Bless, there was also a dependency on "scrollkeeper", which I took care of with a yum install scrollkeeper.

Upvotes: 2

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