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-.TH mkbundle "mkbundle 1.0"
+.TH Mono "mkbundle"
.SH NAME
mkbundle, mkbundle2 \- Creates a bundled executable.
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.
$ mkbundle -o hello --simple hello.exe
.fi
+.PP
+You can configure options to be passed to the Mono runtime directly
+into your executable, for this, use the
+.I --options
+flag. For example, the following disables inlining, by passing the
+"-O=-inline" command line option to the embedded executable:
+.nf
+
+ $ mkbundle -o hello --options -O=-inline --simple hello.exe
+
.PP
The simple version allows for cross-compiling, this requires a Mono
runtime to be installed in the ~/.mono/targets/TARGET/mono to be
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
assemblies listed on the command line option. This is useful to
distribute a self-contained image.
.TP
+.I "--env KEY=VALUE"
+Use this to hardcode an environment variable at runtime for KEY to be
+mapped to VALUE. This is useful in scenarios where you want to
+enable certain Mono runtime configuration options that are controlled
+by environment variables.
+.TP
.I "--fetch-target target"
Downloads a precompiled runtime for the specified target from the Mono
distribution site.
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. Multiple libraries should be specified in
+dependency order, where later ones on the command line depend on
+earlier ones.
+.TP
.I "--lists-targets"
Lists all of the available local cross compilation targets available
as precompiled binaries on the Mono distribution server.
Places the output on `out'. If the flag -c is specified, this is the
C host program. If not, this contains the resulting executable.
.TP
+.I "--options OPTS"
+Since the resulting executable will be treated as a standalone
+program, you can use this option to pass configuration options to the
+Mono runtime and bake those into the resulting executable. These
+options are specified as
+.I OPTS.
+.Sp
+You can use the above to configure options that you would typically
+pass on the command line to Mono, before the main program is
+executed.
+.Sp
+Additionally, users of your binary can still configure their own
+options by setting the
+.I MONO_ENV_OPTIONS
+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
target runtimes, you can specify a different server to provide
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