A (Windows) project I'm working on uses Mono to provide a scripting interface through the use of C# plugins. This project was first started (not by me) in 2012 and uses Mono version 2 to accomplish that task. Since 3 years have passed since then, I think it would be a good idea to update it to the latest version. Besides, I would like to compile it from source myself for two reasons:
- The current compilation (I presume it depends on the options it was compiled with) has zero debugging aid; if an error such as an uncaught exception in a thread occurrs, the default behavior of the Mono DLL is to call
ExitProcess, without any error reporting/logging. - It would be helpful to have the debug database available when investigating crashes.
To summarize, I would like to ask the following questions:
- What is the latest version of Mono I should use in this situation?
- Where can I obtain its source code to compile it for Windows?
- Does that version support .NET 4.5 (2.0 only supports up to 4)?
I have found this article but it only offers you to download precompiled Windows binaries and generate a DLL based on that. I have also read this question & answer: Getting/compiling Mono-2.0.dll for embedding but compiling it in Cygwin won't give me debug information as far as I understand, also, the OP states they want 2.0 and I want the latest version (which also confuses me, the answer mentions downloading Mono 3.2.3 but still refers to 2.0 DLLs).
