Mono-D is a language binding for MonoDevelop for the D Programming language.

Project site.

Few (none?) GNU/Linux distros package a new enough MonoDevelop required by Mono-D. You can download pre-built binaries built with mono3 below. Unpack to /opt/mono.

• MonoDevelop 4 GNU/Linux x86
• MonoDevelop 4 GNU/Linux x64

How to build Mono and MonoDevelop under Linux

• Install any mono version >2.4 that is available for your linux distro. It will be needed for building mono (yes, read twice, mono is needed to build mono!)

• Build Mono

  • Open terminal in your project directory
  • git clone https://github.com/mono/mono.git
  • cd mono
  • ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/mono
  • make (Will take ~10 Minutes to build!)
  • sudo make install installs the files to /opt/mono

• Get Gtk-Sharp

  • Visit https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gtk-sharp-2 for x64, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gtk-sharp-2 for x86 Linux Systems and download the .tar.xz via 'Download from Mirror'
  • Extract the archive to /opt/mono (so that the bin,lib,share folder from /opt/mono and the archive match!)

• Copy missing gnome-sharp, gnome-vfs-sharp etc. libraries to /opt/mono/lib/mono/gac

• Build MonoDevelop

  • • Open terminal in your project directory
  • git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git
  • cd monodevelop
  • export PATH="/opt/mono:$PATH"
  • ./configure --prefix=/opt/mono
  • make -- In the case make will fail, build MonoDevelop in an older installation of MonoDevelop using the Debug configuration!
  • make install
  • MonoDevelop should be built right now.
  • sudo gedit /opt/mono/bin/monodevelop (Or your favorite editor)
  • add export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mono/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to the other exports at the upper part of the file
  • modify the MONO_EXEC line to MONO_EXEC="exec -a monodevelop /opt/mono/bin/mono" so it'll take the mono installation in /opt/mono by default!
  • Now you can open MonoDevelop via /opt/mono/bin/monodevelop

How to initialize Mono-D development under Linux

• Setup MonoDevelop to use /opt/mono instead of other runtimes
  • Open MonoDevelop
  • Go to Edit -> Options -> Projects tab -> .NET Runtimes
  • Enter /opt/mono as new runtime if it's not there already!
  • Select it as standard runtime
  • Now you can build Mono-D with its gtk-sharp dependencies and no Mono.Cairo conflicts
• Clone Mono-D
  • Open a terminal in your projects folder
  • git clone https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D.git
  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update
• Build Mono-D
  • Open & build the main solution
  • Add symlinks from projectdir/Mono-D/bin/Debug/* to your MonoDevelop AddIns folder
    • cd /opt/mono/lib/monodevelop/AddIns
    • ln -s -d %YourProjectDirectory%/Mono-D/bin/Debug D
  • In the solution view, open the MonoDevelop.D options -> Properties -> Run -> Custom Commands
  • Choose Execute
  • Set /opt/mono/bin/monodevelop as executable
  • Working directory can be left empty
  • Confirm via OK
  • Press F5 to debug
• You can develop Mono-D and debug/test/use Mono-D in the target MonoDevelop installation now!