mkbundle - Creates a bundled executable.

mkbundle [options] assembly1 [assembly2 ...]

mkbundle generates an executable program that will contain static copies of the assemblies listed on the command line. By default only the assemblies specified in the command line will be included in the bundle. To automatically include all of the dependencies referenced, use the "--deps" command line option.

For example, to create a bundle for hello world, use the following command:

	$ mkbundle -o hello hello.exe

The above will pull hello.exe native program called "hello". Notice that the produced image still contains the CIL image and no precompilation is done.

In addition, it is possible to control whether mkbundle should compile the resulting executable or not. This is useful if you want to link additional libraries or control the generated output in more detail. For example, this could be used to link some libraries statically:

	$ mkbundle -o host.c -oo bundles.o --deps hello.exe

$ cc host.c bundles.o /usr/lib/libmono.a -lc -lrt

-c

Produce the stub file, do not compile the resulting stub.

-o filename

Places the output on `out'. If the flag -c is specified, this is the C host program. If not, this contains the resulting executable.

-oo filename

Specifies the name to be used for the helper object file that contains the bundle.

-L path

Adds the `path' do the search list for assemblies. The rules are the same as for the compiler -lib: or -L flags.

Specifies that a machine.config file must be bundled as well.

Typically this is $prefix/etc/mono/1.0/machine.config or $prefix/etc/mono/2.0/machine.config depending on the profile that you are using (1.0 or 2.0)

--nodeps

This is the default: mkbundle will only include the assemblies that were specified on the command line to reduce the size of the resulting image created.

--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.

--keeptemp

By default mkbundle will delete the temporary files that it uses to produce the bundle. This option keeps the file around.

--static

By default mkbundle dynamically links to mono and glib. This option causes it to statically link instead.

--config-dir DIR

When passed, DIR will be set for the MONO_CFG_DIR environment variable

-z

Compresses the assemblies before embedding. This results in smaller executable files, but increases startup time and requires zlib to be installed on the target system.

This program will load referenced assemblies from the Mono assembly cache.

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mcs(1),mono(1),mono-config(5).