NAME

       gacutil - Global Assembly Cache management utility.

SYNOPSIS

       gacutil [-user] [command] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       gacutil  is  a  tool  used  by developers to install versioned assemblies into the system Global Assembly
       Cache (GAC) to become part of the assemblies that are available for all applications at runtime.

       Notice that they are not directly available to the compiler. The convention is that assemblies must  also
       be  placed  in  a  separate  directory  to  be  accessed by the compiler.  This is done with the -package
       directive to gacutil.

       The tool allows for installation, removal, and listing of the contents of the assembly cache.

       The GAC is relative to the Mono installation prefix: mono_prefix/lib/mono.

COMMANDS

       -i <assembly_path> [-check_refs] [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR]

        Installs an assembly into the global assembly cache. <assembly_path>  is  the  name  of  the  file  that
       contains the assembly manifest

       The  -package option can be used to also create a directory in in prefix/lib/mono with the name NAME, and
       a symlink is created from NAME/assembly_name to the assembly on the GAC.  This is used so developers  can
       reference a set of libraries at once.

       The  -root  option is used to specify the "libdir" value of an installation prefix which differs from the
       prefix of the system  GAC.   Typical  automake  usage  is  "-root  $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib".   To  access
       assemblies  installed  to a prefix other than the mono prefix, it is necessary to set the MONO_GAC_PREFIX
       environment variable.

       The -gacdir option is included for backward compatibility but is not recommended for new  code.  Use  the
       -root option instead.

       The  -check_refs  option  is  used  to  ensure  that  the  assembly being installed into the GAC does not
       reference any non strong named assemblies. Assemblies being installed to the GAC should not reference non
       strong named assemblies, however the is an optional check.

       -l [assembly_name] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR]

       Lists  the  contents  of  the global assembly cache. When the <assembly_name> parameter is specified only
       matching assemblies are listed.

       -u <assembly_display_name> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR]

       Uninstalls an assembly from the global assembly  cache.   <assembly_display_name>  is  the  name  of  the
       assembly  (partial  or  fully  qualified)  to remove from the global assembly cache. If a partial name is
       specified all matching assemblies will be uninstalled. As opposed to the  install  option  that  takes  a
       filename, this takes as an argument the assembly name, which looks like this:
            MyLibrary.Something, version=1.0.0.0, publicKeyToken=xxxx,culture=neutral

       Notice that you can have spaces in the command line. There is no need to quote them.

       Performs  a greedy removal. If you only specify one component like, "MyLibrary.Something", it will remove
       all versions of the library.

       -us <assembly_path> [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] Uninstalls  an  assembly  using  the
       specified  assembly's  full  name.  <assembly path> is the path to an assembly. The full assembly name is
       retrieved from the specified assembly if there is an assembly in the GAC with  a  matching  name,  it  is
       removed. Unlike the -u option this option takes a file name, like this:
               Example: -us myDll.dll

       -ul  <assembly_list_file>  [-package  NAME]  [-root  ROOTDIR]  [-gacdir  GACDIR]  Uninstalls  one or more
       assemblies from the global assembly cache.  <assembly_list_file> is the path to a test file containing  a
       list of assembly names on separate lines.
       Example -ul assembly_list.txt
       assembly_list.txt contents:
           assembly1,Version=1.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef
           assembly2,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=en,PublicKeyToken=0123456789abcdef

FILES

       On  Unix  assemblies  are  loaded  from the installation lib directory.  If you set `prefix' to /usr, the
       assemblies will be located in /usr/lib.  On Windows, the assemblies are loaded from the  directory  where
       mono and mint live.

       /etc/mono/config, ~/.mono/config

       Mono runtime configuration file.  See the mono-config(5) manual page for more information.

WEB SITE

       Visit: http://www.go-mono.com for details

SEE ALSO

       mcs(1),mono(1)

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