Installing IronRuby on Mac

Question

I'm trying to get IronRuby installed on a Mac and having trouble getting it to compile. If I try to build it using MonoDevelop or to compile it directly with xbuild, I get a messaging saying the compiler is crashing while compiling the Microsoft.Dynamic project. When I try to do the rake scripts, I get the message saying I need pkg-config. I tried to find install instructions for pkg-config but coming up short.

Does anyone know of a good resources on how to compile the current version of IronRuby using the current version of Mono/MonoDevelop on a Mac?

Thanks

Answer 1

1) Make sure you have installed the latest stable or trunk version of Mono available for Mac OS X

2) Download the latest IronRuby source code from Github here

3) Unpack the tarball(tar.gz) or zip archive(.zip) file downloaded, then open a terminal in the source directory just extracted (i.e. ironruby-ironruby-b871551/)

4) Try to compile using xbuild /p:TreatWarningsAsErrors=false Solutions/Ruby.sln (I'm using Mono 2.6.7 and when I try to compile the build fails because there is no /usr/bin/dmcs command in this version, so you need to compile Mono from Github code or from this Trunk source see this README file and also READ THIS )

5) If building from the main IronRuby git repository doesn't work you have two alternatives, one is described here, which requires you to use a different branch, and the second alternative is described here

I successfully compiled IronRuby using the second alternative using Mono 2.6.7 on my openSUSE 64-bit KDE desktop box.

Additional resources :

Building IronRuby with Mono on OSX

Getting Started with IronRuby by the author of IronRuby Unleashed

IronRuby, Mono and My Mac

Alternatives:

MacRuby

JRuby (Getting Started with JRuby)