Monodevelop: "MSBuild process could not be started"

Question

I just installed monodevelop on Arch Linux using pacman. I can compile with the mcs command, but I can not build in monodevelop. I am told "MSBuild process could not be started". The same error is given if I try building with mdtool on the command line.

Answer 1

Go to the project options of your project in monodevelop. At Build -> General, there is a new option called Use MSBuild engine (recommended for this project type). Uncheck this option.

Answer 2

Please refer to post Bug 33896 - Build fails if LANG is set to a UTF8 locale.

Basically you have to start monodevelop with something like LC_ALL=C monodevelop and you can use MSBuild.

Even better option is to enable non-utf8 locale for your region. Edit the content of /etc/locale.gen and un-comment your non-utf8 regional locale. Then run command

locale-gen

to regenerate locales and

locale -a

to verify that new locale is available. In my case (Slovenia) I then start monodevelop with

LC_ALL=sl_SI monodevelop

Or you can disable MSBuild as described in previous answer.