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-.TH vbnc 1 "21 February 2006"
-.SH NAME
-vbnc \- Mono Visual Basic Compiler.
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B vbnc
-[option] [source-files]
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
-.I (vbnc)
-is a CIL compiler for the VisualBasic.NET language.
-.PP
-Applications developed on Windows with vbc can execute on Mono and applications
-compiled with 'vbnc' can be executed on .NET runtime.
-.PP
-The Mono Visual Basic compiler accepts the same options as
-the Microsoft VB.NET compiler. Those options can start with a slash or a
-dash (/checked is the same as -checked).
-.PP
-Visual Basic.NET source files normally ends with a ".vb" extension.
-Compilation of VB.NET source code requires all the files that make
-up a library, module or executable to be provided on the command line.
-There is no support for partial compilation. To achieve the benefits
-of partial compilation, you should compile programs into their own
-assemblies, and later reference them with the "-r" flag.
-.PP
-The Mono Basic compiler generates images (.exe files) that contain
-CIL byte code that can be executed by any system that implements a Common
-Language Infrastructure virtual machine such as the Microsoft .NET
-runtime engine on Windows or the Mono runtime engine on Unix systems.
-Executables are not bound to a specific CPU or operating system.
-.PP
-The Mono Basic compiler by default only references these assemblies:
-mscorlib.dll, Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll, System.dll and System.Xml.dll.
-If you want to reference extra libraries you must manually specify
-them using the the -r: command line option.
-.PP
-.SH OPTIONS
-.TP
-.I \-addmodule:MODULE1[,MODULE2]
-Includes the specified modules in the resulting assembly.
-.TP
-.I -codepage:ID
-Specifies the code page used to process the input files from the
-point it is specified on. By default files will be processed in the
-current code page. The compiler will also automatically detect
-Unicode/UTF8 files that have an embedded byte mark at the beginning.
-.TP
-Other popular encodings are 28591 (Latin1), 1252 (iso-8859-1) and 65001 (UTF-8).
-.TP
-.I \-define:SYMLIST, -d:SYMLIST
-Defines the symbol listed by the semi-colon separeted list SYMLIST
-SYMBOL. This can be tested in the source code by the pre-processor,
-or can be used by methods that have been tagged with the Conditional
-attribute.
-.TP
-.I \-debug:AMOUNT
-Specify the amount of debugging information to emit. Possible values for
-AMOUNT are "full" and "pdbonly".
-.TP
-.I \-imports:import-list
-Declare global Imports for listed namespaces.
-.TP
-.I \-ignorewarn:XXXX
-Ignores warning number XXXX.
-.TP
-.I -lib:PATHLIST, -libpath:PATHLIST
-Each path specified in the comma-separated list will direct the
-compiler to look for libraries in that specified path.
-.TP
-.I \-main:CLASS
-Tells the compiler which CLASS or MODULE contains the entry point. Useful when
-you are compiling several classes with a Main method.
-.TP
-.I \-nologo
-Suppress printing copyright information on startup.
-.TP
-.I \-nostdlib, -nostdlib+
-Use this flag if you want to compile the core library. This makes the
-compiler load its internal types from the assembly being compiled.
-.TP
-.I \-noconfig, \-noconfig+
-Disables the default compiler configuration to be loaded. The
-compiler by default has references to the system assemblies.
-.TP
-.I \-nowarn
-Makes the compiler ignore warnings.
-.TP
-.I \-optioncompare:binary, \-optioncompare:text
-Select between binary and text string comparisons. The default is binary
-string comparisons.
-.TP
-.I \-optionexplicit[+|-]
-Require explicit declaration of variables
-.TP
-.I \-optionstrict[+|-]
-Enforce strict language semantics
-.TP
-.I \-out:FNAME, -o FNAME
-Names the output file to be generated.
-.TP
-.I -q -quiet
-Commands the compiler to show only error messages for syntax-related errors
-and warnings.
-.TP
-.I -resource:RESOURCE[,ID]
-Embeds to the given resource file. The optional ID can be used to
-give a different name to the resource. If not specified, the resource
-name will be the file name.
-.TP
-.I -linkresource:RESOURCE[,ID]
-Links to the specified RESOURCE. The optional ID can be used to give
-a name to the linked resource.
-.TP
-.I -r:ASSEMBLY1[,ASSEMBLY2], \-r ASSEMBLY1[,ASSEMBLY2]
-Reference the named assemblies. Use this to use classes from the named
-assembly in your program. The assembly will be loaded from either the
-system directory where all the assemblies live, or from the path
-explicitly given with the -L option.
-.PP
-You can also use a semicolon to separate the assemblies instead of a
-comma.
-.TP
-.I \-removeintchecks[+|-]
-Remove integer checks. Default off.
-.TP
-.I \-rootnamespace:namespace
-Specifies the root namespace for all type declarations
-.TP
-.I \-target:KIND, \-t:KIND
-Used to specify the desired target. The possible values are: exe
-(plain executable), winexe (Windows.Forms executable), library
-(component libraries) and module (partial library).
-.TP
-.I \-utf8output[+|-]
-Emit compiler output in UTF8 character encoding. Currently ignored.
-.TP
-.I \-\-version
-Shows the compiler version.
-.TP
-.I \-warnaserror, \-warnaserror+
-Treat warnings as errors.
-.SH STABILITY
-As of early 2007, the Mono Visual Basic compiler is still considered preview
-software. The compiler is almost feature-complete (targeting the Microsoft
-Visual Basic 8 compiler), only lacking support for the 'My' namespace.
-Frequent crashes are still occuring, especially with incorrect code.
-.PP
-.SH AUTHORS
-See the ChangeLog for authors
-.PP
-.SH LICENSE
-The Mono Visual Basic compiler is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL.
-Alternative licenses are available from Novell.
-.PP
-.SH SEE ALSO
-mcs(1), mono(1), mint(1), sn(1)
-.PP
-.SH BUGS
-To report bugs in the compiler, you can file bug reports in our
-bug tracking system: http://bugzilla.ximian.com.
-.SH MAILING LIST
-The Mono Basic Mailing List is available at: mono-vb-list-request@ximian.com
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