First create an artful lxc container, it's old enough we can use it to quickly cross-build mono for the older glibc available on Evercades.
sudo lxc launch ubuntu:a/armhf armhf-artful
sudo lxc exec armhf-artful bash
Now let's fix artful's repo situation, this release is outside of the usual repositories due to being too old. We'll then install the packages.
sed -i 's$http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports$http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu$' /etc/apt/sources.list