There are two modes of operation, one uses an existing Mono binary or
a server-hosted list of binaries and is enabled when you use either
the
-.B --cross
+.B --cross,
+.B --sdk
or the
.B --runtime
command line options.
When passed, DIR will be set for the MONO_CFG_DIR environment variable
.TP
.I "--cross target"
-Creates a bundle for the specified target platform. The target
-must be a directory in ~/.mono/targets/ that contains a "mono"
-binary. You can fetch various targets using the --fetch-target
-command line option.
+Use this to request mkbundle generate a cross-compiled binary. It
+Creates a bundle for the specified target platform. The target must
+be a directory in ~/.mono/targets/ that contains an SDK installation
+as produced by the mono-package-runtime tool. You can get a list of
+the precompiled versions of the runtime using --list-targets and you
+can fetch a specific target using the --fetch-target command line
+option.
+.Sp
+This flag is mutually exclusive with
+.I --sdk
+which is used to specify an absolute path to resolve the Mono runtime
+from and the --runtime option which is used to manually construct the
+cross-platform package.
.TP
.I "--deps"
This option will bundle all of the referenced assemblies for the
Or you can use a comma delimited list of the workds CJK, MidWest,
Other, Rare and West to specificy which encoding assemblies to distribute.
.TP
-.TP
.I "-L path"
Adds the `path' do the search list for assemblies. The rules are the
same as for the compiler -lib: or -L flags.
+.TP
+.I "--library [LIB,]PATH"
+Embeds the dynamic library file pointed to by `PATH' and optionally
+give it the name `LIB' into the bundled executable. This is used to
+ship native library dependencies that are unpacked at startup and
+loaded from the runtime.
+.TP
.I "--lists-targets"
Lists all of the available local cross compilation targets available
as precompiled binaries on the Mono distribution server.
Additionally, users of your binary can still configure their own
options by setting the
.I MONO_ENV_OPTIONS
-environment variable.
+environment variable.
+.TP
+.I "--sdk SDK_PATH"
+Use this flag to specify a path from which mkbundle will resolve the
+Mono SDK from. The SDK path should be the prefix path that you used
+to configure a Mono installation. And would typically contain files
+lik
+.I SDK_PATH/bin/mono
+,
+.I SDK_PATH/lib/mono/4.5
+and so on.
+.Sp
+When this flag is specified,
+.I mkbundle
+will resolve the runtime, the framework libraries, unmanaged resources
+and configuration files from the files located in this directory.
+.Sp
+This flag is mutually exlusive with
+.I --cross
+.
.TP
.I "--target-server SERVER"
By default the mkbundle tool will download from a Mono server the