This is my “Things not to forget when building mono on windows” list. Hopefully it will be of use to somebody else too.
Remember that this always takes a lot longer than you like.
Read this first http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_on_Windows.
use this:
cd mono
make get-monolite-latest
to get a mcs compiler installed that you will need to compile some mono components.
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