Getting Started

Building Xamarin.Forms GTK Backend

Linux

Install the latest version of Mono

Mono is a cross- platform, open source .Net platform.To build Xamarin.Forms under Linux, you need to have a recent version of Mono installed. You can find a great installation instructions for many popular Linux distros.

Once you have your package manager configured for the Mono repository, install the mono-devel package, for example on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mono-devel

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/Xamarin.Forms.git
git submodule update --init

Restore NuGet packages

cd Xmarin.Forms
mkdir -p .nuget
wget -O .nuget/nuget.exe https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/latest/nuget.exe
mono .nuget/nuget.exe restore Xamarin.Forms.sln

Build and Run

To build in the Debug configuration:

xbuild /p:Platform=Mono /p:Configuration=Debug Xamarin.Forms.sln

MacOS

Xamarin.Forms GTK Backend requires Visual Studio for MacOS to build on MacOS.

Windows

Xamarin.Forms GTK Backend requires at least Visual Studio 2015 to build on Windows.

Install GTK Sharp

For the moment under windows, you must have gtk-sharp installed. Note that after installing the package your machine may require a restart before GTK# is added to your path. We hope to remove or make this dependency optional at some point in the future.

Clone the Xamarin.Forms GTK Backend repository

git clone https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/Xamarin.Forms.git
git submodule update --init

Open in Visual Studio

Open the Xamarin.Forms.sln solution in Visual Studio 2015 or newer. The free Visual Studio Community edition works fine.