cilc(1)

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✨ cilc — Mono CIL-to-C binding generator ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about a whole manual page from the General Commands Manual section of your Unix docs and honestly? it's giving underrated icon 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

cilc — the Mono CIL-to-C binding generator, periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cilc [options] assembly target

that's it. that's the whole vibe. two positional besties plus options 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like. cilc is the Mono CIL-to-C binding generator. no cap, that's its whole job title.

what it does: it takes a CIL assembly as input, and it generates a directory of C sources. and those C sources, when you compile them, give you a C interface to the classes contained inside that assembly — by means of a shared object library. it's literally the glow-up pipeline for your assembly 🧚✨

⚠️ important tea: the generated sources make use of the Mono embedding API. so that means a complete Mono development environment must be available on the development system, and a complete Mono runtime environment must be available on target systems. both. not one. both. don't skip leg day 🙈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com> — shoutout to the author, absolute main character energy 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • mono(1) — go read that one next, iykyk 🌈

and that's the page bestie!! 🫶 this whole thing lives in the General Commands Manual section, and the footer was literally just cilc(1) — that's it, that's the version-and-date situation, short and sweet like a text you leave on read 😭💖 go forth and bind some CIL, you got this ⭐

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