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NAME

       vbnc, vbnc2 - Mono Visual Basic Compiler.

SYNOPSIS

       vbnc [option] [source-files]

DESCRIPTION

       (vbnc) is a CIL compiler for the VisualBasic.NET language.

       Applications  developed  on Windows with vbc can execute on Mono and applications compiled
       with 'vbnc' can be executed on .NET runtime.

       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).

       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.

       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.

       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.

       The vbnc compiler is used to compile against the latest available profile  (currently  the
       4.0 profile).

       The vbnc2 compiler is used to compile against the 2.0 profile.

OPTIONS

       -addmodule:MODULE1[,MODULE2]
              Includes the specified modules in the resulting assembly.

       -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.

       Other popular encodings are 28591 (Latin1), 1252 (iso-8859-1) and 65001 (UTF-8).

       -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.

       -debug:AMOUNT
              Specify the amount of debugging information to emit. Possible values for AMOUNT are
              "full" and "pdbonly".

       -imports:import-list
              Declare global Imports for listed namespaces.

       -ignorewarn:XXXX
              Ignores warning number XXXX.

       -lib:PATHLIST, -libpath:PATHLIST
              Each  path  specified  in the comma-separated list will direct the compiler to look
              for libraries in that specified path.

       -main:CLASS
              Tells the compiler which CLASS or MODULE contains the entry point. Useful when  you
              are compiling several classes with a Main method.

       -nologo
              Suppress printing copyright information on startup.

       -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.

       -noconfig, -noconfig+
              Disables the default compiler configuration to be loaded.  The compiler by  default
              has references to the system assemblies.

       -nowarn
              Makes the compiler ignore warnings.

       -optioncompare:binary, -optioncompare:text
              Select  between  binary  and  text string comparisons. The default is binary string
              comparisons.

       -optionexplicit[+|-]
              Require explicit declaration of variables

       -optionstrict[+|-]
              Enforce strict language semantics

       -out:FNAME, -o FNAME
              Names the output file to be generated.

       -q -quiet
              Commands the compiler to show only error messages  for  syntax-related  errors  and
              warnings.

       -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.

       -linkresource:RESOURCE[,ID]
              Links to the specified RESOURCE.  The optional ID can be used to give a name to the
              linked resource.

       -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.

       You can also use a semicolon to separate the assemblies instead of a comma.

       -sdkpath:PATH
              Sets   the   path   to   the   required   framework  assemblies  (mscorlib.dll  and
              Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll). To compile to a different profile than the default, use
              this option to the path to the mscorlib.dll of the profile you want to compile to.

       -removeintchecks[+|-]
              Remove integer checks. Default off.

       -rootnamespace:namespace
              Specifies the root namespace for all type declarations

       -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).

       -utf8output[+|-]
              Emit compiler output in UTF8 character encoding. Currently ignored.

       --version
              Shows the compiler version.

       -warnaserror, -warnaserror+
              Treat warnings as errors.

STABILITY

       As  of  early  2011, the Mono Visual Basic compiler is still considered beta software. The
       compiler is feature-complete (targeting the Microsoft Visual Basic  8  compiler),  however
       crashes are still occuring, most notably with incorrect code.

AUTHORS

       See the ChangeLog for authors

LICENSE

       The  Mono  Visual Basic compiler is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL.  Alternative
       licenses are available from Novell.

SEE ALSO

       mcs(1), mono(1), mint(1), sn(1)

BUGS

       To report bugs in the compiler, you can file bug  reports  in  our  bug  tracking  system:
       http://bugzilla.ximian.com.

MAILING LIST

       The Mono Basic Mailing List is available at: mono-vb-list-request@ximian.com

                                         21 February 2006                                 vbnc(1)