Hello, Recently, a lot of messages have popped about NAnt and pkg-config failing with the latest release of Mono. As NAnt is the basis for building Monobjc, I have gathered some information about the various problems. Use this cheat sheet to solve your issues.
Issue #1: pkg-config is not found The "pkg-config" binary shipped with Mono is no longer linked to /usr/bin/pkg-config since Mono 2.4. I found an explanation here https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513662 . Symptoms: - "pkg-config" command returns "-bash: /usr/bin/pkg-config: No such file or directory" - "which pkg-config" command returns nothing Solution (a): - Prepend the "/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands" folder to your PATH variable. You can use the "export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands:$PATH" command. Solution (b): - Create the soft-link from "/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/pkg-config" to "/usr/bin/pkg-config". You can use the "cd /usr/bin; sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/pkg-config ." commands. Issue #2: pkg-config cannot find some .pc files Symptoms: - "pkg-config --modversion mono" fails with missing .pc files Solution: - Since Mono 2.4, some development files are shipped along the Mono CSDK package. Be sure to install BOTH the Mono Runtime and the Mono CSDK to have all the needed files. Issue #3: NAnt does not work Symptoms: - NAnt fails with "pkg-config" command missing - NAnt fails with "pkg-config" complaining that Mono profile is missing Solutions: - Fix issue #1 and issue #2. These are the main reasons why NAnt is failing. Comments and feedbacks are appreciated. Regards, Laurent Etiemble.
