Building and running Monodevelop solution in OS X Terminal

Question

I\'d like to build and run a Monodevelop solution from the OS X Terminal. What are the appropriate tools/commands to do this?

I tried running mdto

Answer 1

On a Mac, mdtool is not in the PATH, but can be found inside the MD app bundle, for example

/Applications/MonoDevelop.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool build MySolution.sln

Alternatively you could try xbuild, which is installed as part of Mono, and is in PATH. This is an implementation of MSBuild. Unfortunately it can't yet handle all the custom project types that mdtool can handle.

xbuild MySolution.sln

Answer 2

See http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Mac_Support/Building_MonoDevelop_on_OS_X

Answer 3

Nowadays if you run xbuild you also will get:

">>> xbuild tool is deprecated and will be removed in future updates, use msbuild instead <<<<"

So, you should go for:

msbuild Solution.sln