Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-07-15 Thread SmokingRope
http://bcl.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Long%20PathreferringTitle=Home There does exists some existing open source code simplifying the use of long file names. http://bcl.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Long%20PathreferringTitle=Home I can't speak to the immediate viability of using it with mono,

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-07-10 Thread Jonathan Chambers
Or maybe we could try long path support on WIndows. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364944(v=vs.85).aspx In the ANSI version of this function, the name is limited to *MAX_PATH* characters. To extend this limit to 32,767 wide characters, call the Unicode version of the

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-07-10 Thread Greg Najda
It's not a simple matter of prepending \\?\ to every path. What if the path already has \\?\ or one of those other strange Windows prefixes or is a UNC path, which normally begins \\server\share but would have to become \\?\UNC\server\share? You also can't use \\?\ with relative paths. Forward

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-07-09 Thread Greg Najda
Following up on this, I finally got it figured it. The length of my checkout directory is too long at 49 chars, which is not really that long. I did some digging and found that Mono uses GetFileAttributes to check for the existence of a file in Windows. So I made a test program in C that takes a

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-06-27 Thread Greg Najda
I'm new to git. I'm using Atlassian SourceTree as a git gui. I'm pretty sure it updates submodules after cloning. I ran git submodule update anyway, which produced no output, and then tried building again and got the same error. After pulling the latest changes I get a new error earlier in the

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-06-26 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
Update your git submodules. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Greg Najda gregna...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running into some trouble compiling Mono on Windows. Here are the steps I followed: 1. Do a git clone (using 1b5ef4d3df262c66f58596bda152db5f4c34741c, Add a GSHAREDVT_REG_IREG return

[Mono-dev] Compiling on Windows

2013-06-25 Thread Greg Najda
I'm running into some trouble compiling Mono on Windows. Here are the steps I followed: 1. Do a git clone (using 1b5ef4d3df262c66f58596bda152db5f4c34741c, Add a GSHAREDVT_REG_IREG return marshalling convention on ARM., 2013-06-23) 2. Install cygwin. Include packages: autoconf, automake, bison,

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on windows in Cygwin problem

2008-10-24 Thread russell.kay
-dev] Compiling on windows in Cygwin problem Hi, Re-run autogen.sh. Zoltan 2008/10/23 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, I've just done an update from SVN on trunk and I am getting the following error snip lots of successful output CC mono-endian.lo CC mono-config.lo

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on windows in Cygwin problem

2008-10-24 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 17:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much, that got me past that stage. I now have a hang during make the output is snip lots of output ../errors\cs5001.cs ../errors\cs5001.xml ../errors\CSExternAlias-lib.cs Ignoring file ../errors\CSExternAlias-lib.cs

[Mono-dev] Compiling on windows in Cygwin problem

2008-10-23 Thread russell.kay
All, I've just done an update from SVN on trunk and I am getting the following error snip lots of successful output CC mono-endian.lo CC mono-config.lo make[3]: *** No rule to make target `rawbuffer.c', needed by `rawbuffer.lo'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling on windows in Cygwin problem

2008-10-23 Thread Zoltan Varga
Hi, Re-run autogen.sh. Zoltan 2008/10/23 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, I've just done an update from SVN on trunk and I am getting the following error snip lots of successful output CC mono-endian.lo CC mono-config.lo make[3]: *** No rule to make target