Question

I must use the commandline/terminal and i need to use gmcs and not xbuild.

How do i compile a project? My one liner looks like this

gmcs -d:mydef -lib:my_ref_folder -debug -r:System.Web,System.Data,mysql.data -recurse:'*.cs' 

The problem is i get the error error CS0006: cannot find metadata filemysql.data’. I googled and i triedgacutil -i name.dll` as many suggested but after installing mysql i still got that error. I also neeed lucence.net and when i use gacutil with it i get the error

# sudo gacutil -i Lucene.Net.dll
Failure adding assembly Lucene.Net.dll to the cache: Attempt to install an assembly without a strong name

How do i build a project with gmcs? i tried googling examples but gmcs isnt a great keyword and i am stumpped with the man pages. -lib: doesnt work and neither does -L my_ref_folder Both dlls/references in the older are not found and i get the cannot find metadata file error

Answer 1

Heres a one liner

gmcs “/out:myfile.dll” -t:library
-r:System,System.Data “/r:/home/user/path/Lucene.Net.dll”
“/r:/home/user/path/mysql.data.dll”
/nologo /warn:4 /debug:+ /debug:full
/optimize- /codepage:utf8
“/define:TRACE;DEBUG”
-recurse:’/home/user/path/*.cs’