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author | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2007-07-11 21:35:43 +0400 |
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committer | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2007-07-11 21:35:43 +0400 |
commit | c6a3a6a84f8015eebd44a164997b6089d0b16c14 (patch) | |
tree | 6a8164bb146b10b975b0f96015dcff860916fe24 /man/mcs.1 | |
parent | 3a1569ec96512cd381b1e6863e01a48cb9776217 (diff) |
Improve the description for smcs, fix the debugging section, prettify
the -pkg section, and update the -pkg section
svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=81817
Diffstat (limited to 'man/mcs.1')
-rw-r--r-- | man/mcs.1 | 52 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/mcs.1 b/man/mcs.1 index 3021c95f1de..d82163fce38 100644 --- a/man/mcs.1 +++ b/man/mcs.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH mcs 1 "6 January 2001" .SH NAME -mcs, gmcs, smcs \- Mono C# Compiler (1.0, 2.0, 2.1) +mcs, gmcs, smcs \- Mono C# Compiler (1.0, 2.0, Moonlight) .SH SYNOPSIS .B mcs [option] [source-files] @@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ the complete C# 2.0 specification including generics. .PP The .I smcs -compiler is used to compile against the 2.1 profile. +compiler is used to compile against the Silverlight/Moonlight profile. +This profile is designed to be used for creating Silverlight/Moonlight +applications that will run on a web browser. The API exposed by this +profile is a small subset of the 2.0 API (even if it is commonly +referred as the 2.1 API, this API is a small subset of 2.0 with a few +extensions). .PP The Mono C# compiler accepts the same command line options that the Microsoft C# compiler does. Those options can start with a slash or a @@ -210,9 +215,11 @@ compile the code. .Sp This is typically used with third party components, like this: .nf + $ mcs -pkg:gtk-sharp demo.cs .fi -.TP +.RS +.ne 8 .TP .I \-pkg:dotnet This will instruct the compiler to reference the System.* libraries @@ -220,9 +227,32 @@ available on a typical dotnet framework installation, notice that this does not include all of the Mono libraries, only the System.* ones. This is a convenient shortcut for those porting code. .TP -.TP .I \-pkg:olive -Use this to reference the "Olive" libraries (the 3.0 and 3.5 extended libraries). +Use this to reference the "Olive" libraries (the 3.0 and 3.5 extended +libraries). +.TP +.I \-pkg:silver +References the assemblies for creating Moonlight/Silverlight +applications. This is automatically used when using the +.I smcs +compiler, but it is here when developers want to use it with the +.I gmcs +compiler. +.TP +.I \-pkg:silverdesktop +Use this option to create Moonlight/Silverlight applications that +target the desktop. This option allows developers to consume the +Silverlight APIs with the full 2.0 profile API available to them, +unlike +.I smcs +it gives full access to all the APIs that are part of Mono. The only +downside is that applications created with silverdesktop will not run +on the browser. Typically these applications will be launched +with the +.I mopen +command line tool. +.ne +.RE .TP .I -resource:RESOURCE[,ID] Embeds to the given resource file. The optional ID can be used to @@ -319,17 +349,15 @@ Note that the effect of defining TRACE and DEBUG is a global setting, even if they are only defined in a single file. .PP .SH DEBUGGING SUPPORT -When use the "--debug" or "-g" flag, MCS will create an assembler file -FILE-debug.s containing debugging information where FILE is the name of -the generated assembly. You need to run this file through the assembler -to get a object file FILE-debug.o. See mono's "--dwarf-plus" argument -for details on how to use this file. +When using the "-debug" flag, MCS will generate a file with the +extension .mdb that contains the debugging information for the +generated assembly. This file is consumed by the Mono debugger (mdb). .SH NOTES During compilation the MCS compiler defines the __MonoCS__ symbol, this can be used by pre-processor instructions to compile Mono C# compiler specific code. Please note that this symbol is only to test for the compiler, and is not useful to distinguish compilation or -deployment platforms. +deployment platforms. .SH AUTHORS The Mono C# Compiler was written by Miguel de Icaza, Ravi Pratap, Martin Baulig, Marek Safar and Raja Harinath. The development was @@ -341,7 +369,7 @@ Please read the accompanying `COPYING' file for details. Alternative licensing for the compiler is available from Novell. .PP .SH SEE ALSO -mono(1), mint(1), sn(1) +mdb(1), mono(1), mopen(1), mint(1), sn(1) .PP .SH BUGS To report bugs in the compiler, you must file them on our bug tracking |