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c#nugetilmerge
vico
vico

Reputation: 18171

Configuring ILMerge package

I have GUI c# project that has several additional packages in reference. I would like to have executable without any additional dll's in build output. For this purpose I'm trying to use ILMerge package from nuget. I have just installed package with command:

Install-Package ilmerge -Version 3.0.18

But as result I got same executable that requires dll's. Should I do any configuration in my project in order to make ILMerge package build merged executable?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 266

Answers (1)

Sergey Shulik
Sergey Shulik

Reputation: 1010

I can to propose to you another workaround, which works without any nuget packages, and just required some code:

  1. You should add all references of your project as Embeded Resources.

  2. After this in entrypoint of your app you should do next:

    AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += OnAssemblyResolve;

private Assembly OnAssemblyResolve(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
    var assemblyName = args.Name.Substring(0, args.Name.IndexOf(','));
    var assembly = ...load binary from embeded resources as you wish based on assemblyName...
    return Assembly.Load(assembly);
}

profit: no additional packages. Easy to use and debug.

concern: hard to maintance if you have a lot of external packages. Needs to add them manually to Embeded Resources.

Upvotes: 1

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