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Reserved Words
@ (Specify a Linker Response File)
/ALIGN (Section Alignment)
/ALLOWBIND (Prevent DLL Binding)
/ALLOWISOLATION (Manifest Lookup)
/APPCONTAINER (Windows Store App)
/ASSEMBLYDEBUG (Add DebuggableAttribute)
/ASSEMBLYLINKRESOURCE (Link to .NET Framework Resource)
/ASSEMBLYMODULE (Add a MSIL Module to the Assembly)
/ASSEMBLYRESOURCE (Embed a Managed Resource)
/BASE (Base Address)
/CLRIMAGETYPE (Specify Type of CLR Image)
/CLRUNMANAGEDCODECHECK (Add SupressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute)
/CLRSUPPORTLASTERROR (Preserve Last Error Code for PInvoke Calls)
/CLRTHREADATTRIBUTE (Set CLR Thread Attribute)
/DEBUG (Generate Debug Info)
/DEF (Specify Module-Definition File)
/DEFAULTLIB (Specify Default Library)
/DELAY (Delay Load Import Settings)
/DELAYLOAD (Delay Load Import)
/DELAYSIGN (Partially Sign an Assembly)
/DLL (Build a DLL)
/DRIVER (Windows NT Kernel Mode Driver)
/DYNAMICBASE (Use address space layout randomization)
/ENTRY (Entry-Point Symbol)
/ERRORREPORT (Report Internal Linker Errors)
/EXPORT (Exports a Function)
/FIXED (Fixed Base Address)
/FORCE (Force File Output)
/FUNCTIONPADMIN (Create Hotpatchable Image)
/HEAP (Set Heap Size)
/HIGHENTROPYVA (Support 64-Bit ASLR)
/IDLOUT (Name MIDL Output Files)
/IGNOREIDL (Don't Process Attributes into MIDL)
/IMPLIB (Name Import Library)
/INCLUDE (Force Symbol References)
/INCREMENTAL (Link Incrementally)
/INTEGRITYCHECK (Require Signature Check)
/KEYCONTAINER (Specify a Key Container to Sign an Assembly)
/KEYFILE (Specify Key or Key Pair to Sign an Assembly)
/LARGEADDRESSAWARE (Handle Large Addresses)
/LIBPATH (Additional Libpath)
/LTCG (Link-time Code Generation)
/MACHINE (Specify Target Platform)
/MANIFEST (Create Side-by-Side Assembly Manifest)
/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY (Specify Manifest Dependencies)
/MANIFESTFILE (Name Manifest File)
/MANIFESTINPUT (Specify Manifest Input)
/MANIFESTUAC (Embeds UAC information in manifest)
/MAP (Generate Mapfile)
/MAPINFO (Include Information in Mapfile)
/MERGE (Combine Sections)
/MIDL (Specify MIDL Command Line Options)
/NOASSEMBLY (Create a MSIL Module)
/NODEFAULTLIB (Ignore Libraries)
/NOENTRY (No Entry Point)
/NOLOGO (Suppress Startup Banner)
/NXCOMPAT (Compatible with Data Execution Prevention)
/OPT (Optimizations)
/ORDER (Put Functions in Order)
/OUT (Output File Name)
/PDB (Use Program Database)
/PDBALTPATH (Use Alternate PDB Path)
/PDBSTRIPPED (Strip Private Symbols)
/PGD (Specify Database for Profile-Guided Optimizations)
/PROFILE (Performance Tools Profiler)
/RELEASE (Set the Checksum)
/SAFESEH (Image has Safe Exception Handlers)
/SECTION (Specify Section Attributes)
/STACK (Stack Allocations)
/STUB (MS-DOS Stub File Name)
/SUBSYSTEM (Specify Subsystem)
/SWAPRUN (Load Linker Output to Swap File)
/TLBID (Specify Resource ID for TypeLib)
/TLBOUT (Name .TLB File)
/TSAWARE (Create Terminal Server Aware Application)
/VERBOSE (Print Progress Messages)
/VERSION (Version Information)
/WINMD (Generate Windows Metadata)
/WINMDFILE (Specify winmd File)
/WINMDKEYFILE (Specify winmd Key File)
/WINMDKEYCONTAINER (Specify Key Container)
/WINMDDELAYSIGN (Partially Sign a winmd)
/WX (Treat Linker Warnings as Errors)
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/WINMD (Generate Windows Metadata)

Visual Studio 2012

Enables generation of a Windows Runtime Metadata (.winmd) file.

/WINMD[:{NO|ONLY}]
/WINMD

The default setting for Windows Store apps. The linker generates both the binary executable file and the .winmd metadata file.

/WINMD:NO

The linker generates only the binary executable file, but not a .winmd file.

/WINMD:ONLY

The linker generates only the .winmd file, but not the binary executable file.

By default, the output file name has the form binaryname.winmd. To specify a different file name, use the /WINMDFILE option.

To set this linker option in the Visual Studio development environment

  1. Open the project's Property Pages dialog box. For details, see Modifying Project Properties.

  2. Select the Linker folder.

  3. Select the Windows Metadata property page.

  4. In the Generate Windows Metadata drop-down list box, select the option you want.

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