I'm having an issue regarding trying to compile my .NET 5 application to a single file executable while debugging through Visual Studio.
My .csproject file is below.
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
<TargetFramework>net50</TargetFramework>
<AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>false</AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>
<RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
<PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
<IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>true</IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>
<PlatformTarget>x64</PlatformTarget>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
I have my runtime identifier set to winx64
and publish single file set to true, yet when building I'm left with a bunch of DLLs that my application uses building along-side it (a total of 272 in total). I was wondering - how would I package these DLLs into this application? I had thought that publishing it as a single file executable would do that already.
For .NET 5, to get a single runnable executable file when you publish your project, the important properties are:
You'll either need to include them in the project file themselves, or specify them on the command line.
Project File:
CLI:
There are other properties worth considering depending on what your needs are, for example:
See documentation pages here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md