MONODIS(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

monodis — the CIL image content dumper and disassembler, and yes bestie it does both, it's giving overachiever 💅

(also this page lives under the Mono manual, version Mono 1.1.x, so you know exactly which era of slay we're in ✨)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

monodis [-h] [--help] [--output=FILENAME] [--mscorlib] [--assembly]
[--assemblyref] [--classlayout] [--constant] [--customattr] [--declsec]
[--event] [--exported] [--fields] [--file] [--forward-decls]
[--genericpar] [--implmap] [--interface] [--manifest] [--marshal]
[--memberref] [--method] [--methodimpl] [--methodsem] [--methodspec]
[--module] [--moduleref] [--mresources] [--presources] [--nested]
[--param] [--parconst] [--property] [--propertymap] [--standalonesig]
[--typedef] [--typeref] [--typespec] [--blob] [--strings]
[--userstrings] [FILES...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so monodis is the little icon that dumps the contents of an ECMA/ISO CIL image for you. those images live inside .EXE files that carry extended PE/COFF CIL code, no cap 🫶

and here's the tea, bestie: if you wanna roundtrip assemblies using ilasm, you should really use the --output argument. like, genuinely. because that's what makes monodis save the embedded resources into actual files that ilasm can later embed back in properly. it's the difference between a clean roundtrip and a whole mess 😭

and that's not even all of it — the tool can also dump the contents of the various ECMA CIL metadata tables. main character energy fr fr 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

the following Generic options are supported:

• --help, -h — displays usage instructions. the classic "help meeee" button 🙈
• --output=FILENAME — writes output into FILENAME and dumps any embedded managed resources. this is the one you want for roundtripping, remember 👑
• --mscorlib — for non-corlib assemblies, use "mscorlib" as the assembly name. super useful for round-tripping the IL with ilasm ✨
• --show-method-tokens — displays tokens for disassembled methods.
• --show-tokens — displays tokens for strings, types, methods, fields, etc.

🌈 OPTIONS TO DISPLAY METADATA TABLES 🌈

these options are used to display metadata tables instead of disassembling the CIL image. pick a table, any table 💅

• --assembly — dumps the contents of the Assembly table.
• --assemblyref — dumps the contents of the AssemblyRef table.
• --classlayout — dumps the contents of the ClassLayout table.
• --constant — dumps the contents of the Constant table.
• --customattr — dumps the contents of the CustomAttribute table.
• --declsec — dumps the contents of the DeclSec table.
• --event — dumps the contents of the Event table.
• --exported — dumps the contents of the ExportedType table.
• --fields — dumps the contents of the Field table.
• --file — dumps the contents of the File table.
• --forward-decls — dumps forward declarations for classes.
• --genericpar — dumps the contents of the GenericParam table.
• --implmap — dumps the contents of the ImplMap table.
• --interface — dumps the contents of the InterfaceImpl table.
• --manifest — dumps the contents of the ManifestResource table.
• --marshal — dumps the contents of the FieldMarshal table.
• --memberref — dumps the contents of the MemberRef table.
• --method — dumps the contents of the MethodDef table.
• --methodimpl — dumps the contents of the MethodImpl table.
• --methodspec — dumps the contents of the MethodSpec table.
• --methodsem — dumps the contents of the MethodSemantics table.
• --module — dumps the contents of the Module table.
• --moduleref — dumps the contents of the ModuleRef table.
• --mresources — saves all the managed resources embedded in the assembly into the current directory. to get a list of the embedded resources use the --manifest option 🍓
• --presources — prints offsets and names of manifest resources embedded in the assembly.
• --nested — dumps the contents of the NestedClass table.
• --param — dumps the contents of the Param table.
• --parconst — dumps the contents of the GenericParameterConstraint table.
• --property — dumps the contents of the Property table.
• --propertymap — dumps the contents of the PropertyMap table.
• --standalonesig — dumps the contents of the StandAloneSig table.
• --typedef — dumps the contents of the TypeDef table.
• --typespec — dumps the contents of the TypeSpec table.
• --typeref — dumps the contents of the TypeRef table.
• --blob — dumps the entire contents of the blob stream as hex.
• --strings — dumps the contents of the Strings heap.
• --userstrings — dumps the contents of the User-Strings heap.

and if you specify no flags at all? the program just dumps the content of the image in a format that can be used to roundtrip the code. default behaviour ate, honestly 💀

🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

• MONO_PATH — provides a search path to mono and mint where to look for library files. directories are separated by the platform path separator (colons on unix). example: /home/username/lib:/usr/local/mono/lib 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

monodis was written by Miguel de Icaza, Paolo Molaro and Dietmar Maurer. absolute icons, all three of them 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• pedump(1)

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes ✨ this was monodis from the Mono 1.1.x manual — go dump something iconic, you've got this 🫶💖🌈