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.\" gacutil manual page.
.\" (C) 2004 Novell, Inc.
.\" Author:
.\" Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)
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.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)
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