2008-03-13 Ivan N. Zlatev <contact@i-nz.net>

[mono.git] / man / mcs.1

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@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ 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).
+extensions), in addition this profile by default runs with
+-langversion:linq which turns on the C# 3.0 language by default.
 .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
@@ -155,10 +156,15 @@ Instruct compiler to use the latest version. Equivalent is to omit the
 switch (this currently defaults to the C# 2.0 language specification).
 .TP
 .I "ISO-1"
-Restrict compiler to use only ISO standardized features.
+Restrict compiler to use only first ISO standardized features.
 The usage of features such as generics, static classes, anonymous
 methods will lead to error.
 .TP
+.I "ISO-2"
+Restrict compiler to use only the second ISO standardized features.
+This allows the use of generics, static classes, iterators and
+anonymous methods for example.
+.TP
 .I "linq"
 This enables the C# 3.0 support.   Only a few features of C# 3.0 have
 been implemented in the Mono C# compiler, so not everything is
@@ -352,6 +358,30 @@ even if they are only defined in a single 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 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.TP
+.I "MCS_COLORS"
+If this variable is set, it contains a string in the form
+"foreground,background" that specifies which color to use to display
+errors on some terminals.  
+.Sp
+The background is optional and defaults to your terminal current
+background.   The possible colors for foreground are:
+.B black, red, brightred, green, brightgreen, yellow, brightyellow,
+blue, brightblue, magenta, brightmagenta, cyan, brightcyan, grey,
+white and brightwhite.
+.Sp
+The possible colors for background are: black, red, green, yellow,
+blue, magenta, cyan, grey and white.
+.Sp 
+For example, you could set these variable from your shell:
+.nf
+       export MCS_COLORS
+       MCS_COLORS=errors=brightwhite,red
+.fi
+.Sp
+You can disable the built-in color scheme by setting this variable to
+"disable".
 .SH NOTES
 During compilation the MCS compiler defines the __MonoCS__ symbol,
 this can be used by pre-processor instructions to compile Mono C#