# IronRuby on Mono **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531 "2008-09-02T21:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/1 "2008-09-02T21:46:54Z")
Hi, I was trying to build IronRuby from SVN head, but I encountered a few problems: 1. Several times in context.rb, there are calls to String#basename and String#dirname. These should probably be replaced by File.basename(some\_string) and File.dirname(some\_string), respectively. 2. After fixing this I encountered something an issue because the paths have been hard coded with “” as the path separator, which doesn’t work on non-Windows systems. Since I’m not sure where all these paths are coming from, and I don’t want to break other things, I’ve added pathname = pathname.gsub(’\’, File::SEPARATOR) at the beginning of the method. 3. This still doesn’t fix things, as the method is receiving a filename surrounded by double quotes (“Actions\ActionSelfExpression.cs”), instead of just the filename. I’m not sure this is to be sure you don’t mess up paths with spaces in them, but it causes trouble here. I’ve hacked around it by removing the quotes before changing the separator issue, but this is obviously a dirty hack. 4. After I did this, it turned out the path being passed resided in a subdirectory of the current directory, instead of the current directory itself. I’m not sure what to do about this issue. Are all the paths refering to ./src/microsoft.scripting/actions? Has anyone else tried running a recent version on Mono? ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/2 "2008-09-02T23:27:33Z")
2008/9/3 Wim Vander S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Has anyone else tried running a recent version on Mono? Yes, please use patches here: [http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/](http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/) ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/3 "2008-09-02T23:53:58Z")
Ok, these patches get me past the errors I got earlier, but a few steps further I run into this: ./utils/helpers.cs(37,20): error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for `System.Reflection.Emit.DynamicMethod.DynamicMethod(string, System.Type, System.Type[], System.Reflection.Module)' has some invalid arguments /usr/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error) ./utils/helpers.cs(37,20): error CS1503: Argument 4: Cannot convert type`bool’ to `System.Reflection.Module’ Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 12 warnings I’m using Mono 1.9.1. ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/4 "2008-09-03T00:09:47Z")
2008/9/3 Wim Vander S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > I’m using Mono 1.9.1. Yes, these issues are fixed in SVN, but not fixed in any stable releases yet. ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/5 "2008-09-03T00:17:59Z")
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:27:15AM +0900, Seo S. wrote: > 2008/9/3 Wim Vander S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > Has anyone else tried running a recent version on Mono? > > Yes, please use patches here: > [http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/](http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/) Seo and I are working on constructing an automated build test machine. We’ll document the process as we proceed. Keep your eye on [http://ironruby.colliertech.org/](http://ironruby.colliertech.org/) Cheers, C.J. ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/6 "2008-09-03T00:32:01Z")
hey there Wim, I just finished reviewing Seo’s recent postings and it looks like IronRuby currently requires a Mono from subversion. We’d be happy to walk you through the process on #mono ([irc.gimp.net](http://irc.gimp.net)). If you’re familiar with ye olde autotools build system, you can grab the source from svn and go. $ svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mono $ cd mono $ svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mcs $ wget -O ~/.devenv [http://www.colliertech.org/~cjac/scripts/\_devenv.sh](http://www.colliertech.org/~cjac/scripts/_devenv.sh) $ . ~/.devenv $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/opt $ make $ make install … $ which mono Cheers, C.J. On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:50:07PM +0200, Wim Vander S. wrote: > Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 12 warnings > > > [http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/](http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/)[http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/](http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/%7Etinuviel/download/IronRuby/) > > – > Wim Vander S. > [http://fixnum.org](http://fixnum.org) ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/7 "2008-09-05T00:16:34Z")
Hey, On 9/5/08, Wim Vander S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > The old ones are fixed, but now I’m getting these Pass -noconfig to gmcs, that will prevent it to reference System.Core, which causes the conflicts you’re seing. ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/8 "2008-09-05T00:11:53Z")
I’ve built Mono from SVN (following the instructions found on [Redirecting…](http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono)) now, but I’m still getting errors. The old ones are fixed, but now I’m getting these (output contains many more warnings, but I don’t think those matter at the moment): ./ast/LambdaExpression.cs(178,20): error CS0122: `System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.Expression(System.Linq.Expressions.Expression, System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection)' is inaccessible due to its protection level /home/wim/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error) ./ast/LambdaExpression.cs(178,20): error CS1729: The type `System.Linq.Expressions.Expression’ does not contain a constructor that takes `5' arguments /home/wim/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error) ./ast/LambdaExpression.cs(313,20): error CS0122: `System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.Expression(System.Linq.Expressions.Expression, System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection\)’ is inaccessible due to its protection level /home/wim/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/3.5.0.0\_\_b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error) ./ast/LambdaExpression.cs(313,20): error CS1729: The type `System.Linq.Expressions.Expression' does not contain a constructor that takes `5’ arguments /home/wim/usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Core/3.5.0.0\_\_b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error) Any help with this one? I’m really sorry to keep polluting the mailinglist with these problems, but I don’t know where else to look. kind regards, Wim ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wim\_Vander\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Wim_Vander_S)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-mono/147531/9 "2008-09-05T13:54:47Z")
I’ve tried alliasing gmcs, but that doesn’t seem to work, how do I make rake use gmcs -noconfig instead of gmcs? kind regards, Wim