gacutil - Global Assembly Cache management utility.
gacutil [-user] [command] [options]
gacutil is a tool used by developers to install versioned assemblies into
the system Global Assembly Cache (GAC) to become part of the assemblies that
are available for all applications at runtime.
Notice that they are not directly available to the compiler. The convention is
that assemblies must also be placed in a separate directory to be accessed by
the compiler. This is done with the -package directive to gacutil.
The tool allows for installation, removal, and listing of the contents of the
assembly cache.
The GAC is relative to the Mono installation prefix: mono_prefix/lib/mono.
-i <assembly_path> [-check_refs] [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR]
[-gacdir GACDIR]
Installs an assembly into the global assembly cache. <assembly_path> is
the name of the file that contains the assembly manifest
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.
The -root option is used to specify the "libdir" value of an
installation prefix which differs from the prefix of the system GAC. Typical
automake usage is "-root $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib". To access
assemblies installed to a prefix other than the mono prefix, it is necessary
to set the MONO_GAC_PREFIX environment variable.
The -gacdir option is included for backward compatibility but is not recommended
for new code. Use the -root option instead.
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.
-l [assembly_name] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR]
Lists the contents of the global assembly cache. When the <assembly_name>
parameter is specified only matching assemblies are listed.
-u <assembly_display_name> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir
GACDIR]
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:
MyLibrary.Something, version=1.0.0.0, publicKeyToken=xxxx,culture=neutral
Notice that you can have spaces in the command line. There is no need to quote
them.
Performs a greedy removal. If you only specify one component like,
"MyLibrary.Something", it will remove all versions of the library.
-us <assembly_path> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir
GACDIR] Uninstalls an assembly using the specified assembly's 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:
Example: -us myDll.dll
-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.
Example -ul assembly_list.txt
assembly_list.txt contents:
assembly1,Version=1.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef
assembly2,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef
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.
/etc/mono/config, ~/.mono/config
Mono runtime configuration file. See the
mono-config(5) manual page for more
information.
Visit:
http://www.go-mono.com for details
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