{"id":57,"date":"2013-11-11T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:00:05","slug":"installing-monodoc-on-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Installing monodoc on FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any idea if mono-tools is still supported package, but its build is badly broken at least on FreeBSD. Anyway, the only tool I find really useful there is <strong>monodoc<\/strong>, which luckily can be installed manually like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Download latest mono-tools (from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mono\/mono-tools\">github<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Install <strong>\/usr\/ports\/x11-toolkits\/gnome-desktop-sharp20<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do <strong>.\/autogen.sh<\/strong> in directory where you downloaded mono-tools (obviously you need to have automake and autoconf tools for this)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>cd docbrowser<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do <strong>gmake<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>it will fail to compile admin.cs file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you do <strong>touch admin.exe<\/strong> to make it think it succeeded<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do <strong>gmake install<\/strong> (still in docbrowser directory)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After all this you should be able to start <strong>monodoc<\/strong> from command line (or to invoke it from within <strong>monodevelop<\/strong> using F1). I find <strong>monodoc<\/strong> very useful when browsing Gtk# documentation, since web documentation seems to have some very stupid layout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any idea if mono-tools is still supported package, but its build is badly broken at least on FreeBSD. Anyway, the only tool I find really useful there is monodoc, which luckily can be installed manually like this: After all this you should be able to start monodoc from command line (or to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,47,48],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freebsd","tag-mono","tag-monodoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}