配置ILMerge程序包

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.