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diff --git a/man/gacutil.1 b/man/gacutil.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2b696533f3c --- /dev/null +++ b/man/gacutil.1 @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +..\" +.\" gacutil manual page. +.\" (C) 2004 Novell, Inc. +.\" Author: +.\" Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org) +.\" +.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) +.if t .sp .5v +.if n .sp +.. +.TH gacutil "Mono 1.0" +.SH NAME +gacutil \- Global Asssembly Cache management utility. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.PP +.B gacutil [-user] [command] [options] +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fIgacutil\fP is a tool used by developers to install assemblies into +the system Global Assembly Cache (GAC) to become part of the +assemblies that are available for all applications at runtime. +.PP +Notice that they are not directly available to the compiler, the +convention is that assemblies must also be placed in a separate +directory for being accessed to the compiler. This is done with the +-package directive to gacutil. +.PP +The tool allows for installation, removal, and listing of the +contents of the assembly cache. +.PP +The GAC is relative to the Mono installation prefix: +mono_prefix/lib/mono. +.PP +.SH COMMANDS +.I -i <assembly_path> [-check_refs] [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] +.Sp + Installs an assembly into the global assembly cache. <assembly_path> +is the name of the file that contains the assembly manifest +.Sp +The -package option can be used to also create a directory in in +prefix/lib/mono with the name NAME, and a symlink is created from +NAME/assembly_name to the assembly on the GAC. This is used so +developers can reference a set of libraries at once. +.Sp +The -root option is used by developers integrating this with automake +tools or packaging tools that require a prefix directory to be +specified. The root represents the "libdir" component of a prefix +(typically prefix/lib). +.Sp +The -gacdir option is used to specify the GACs base directory. Once an +assembly has been installed to a non standard gacdir the MONO_GAC_PREFIX +environment variable must be used to access the assembly. +.Sp +The -check_refs option is used to ensure that the assembly being +installed into the GAC does not reference any non strong named +assemblies. Assemblies being installed to the GAC should not reference +non strong named assemblies, however the is an optional check. +.fi +.PP +.I "-l" [assembly_name] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] +.Sp +Lists the contents of the global assembly cache. When the +<assembly_name> parameter is specified only matching assemblies are +listed. +.PP +.I "-u" <assembly_display_name> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] +.Sp +Uninstalls an assembly from the global assembly cache. +<assembly_display_name> is the name of the assembly (partial or +fully qualified) to remove from the global assembly cache. If a +partial name is specified all matching assemblies will be +uninstalled. As opposed to the install option that takes a filename, +this takes as an argument the assembly name, which looks like this: +.nf + MyLibrary.Something, version=1.0.0.0, publicKeyToken=xxxx,culture=neutral +.fi +.Sp +Notice that you can have spaces in the command line, there is no need +to quote them. +.Sp +The removal performs a greedy removal, if you only specifiy one +component like, "MyLibrary.Something", it will remove all versions of +the library. +.Sp +.I "-us" <assembly_path> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] +Uninstalls an assembly using the specifed assemblies full name. +<assembly path> is the path to an assembly. The full assembly name +is retrieved from the specified assembly if there is an assembly in +the GAC with a matching name, it is removed. Unlike the -u option this +option takes a file name, like this: +.nf + Example: -us myDll.dll +.fi +.Sp +.I "-ul" <assembly_list_file> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] +Uninstalls one or more assemblies from the global assembly cache. +<assembly_list_file> is the path to a test file containing a list of +assembly names on separate lines. +.nf +Example -ul assembly_list.txt +.fi +.nf +assembly_list.txt contents: + assembly1,Version=1.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef + assembly2,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef +.fi +.SH FILES +On Unix assemblies are loaded from the installation lib directory. If you set +`prefix' to /usr, the assemblies will be located in /usr/lib. On +Windows, the assemblies are loaded from the directory where mono and +mint live. +.PP +/etc/mono/config, ~/.mono/config +.PP +Mono runtime configuration file. See the mono-config(5) manual page +for more information. +.SH WEB SITE +Visit: http://www.go-mono.com for details +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR mcs(1), mono(1) + + |