how to use ILMerge to combine several assemblies into one

Question

I've been looking for the way to combine multiple dlls into an exe, then I find that ILMerge is a good tool to do it. but after downloading ilmerge 3.0.40 nuget package, I don't know what to do next.

I have found a reference : ILMerge Best Practices(ILMerge Best Practices), but it didn't show specific steps for me.

what do I need to do?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '20 at 09:52

Finally, I find the solution:

After installing the package and building the application, I copy all files in net452(solution packages folder -> ILMerge folder -> tools -> net452).Then I paste it to the path my app built(\bin\Debug).

Then I open the command prompt and cd to my directory and insert the following code:

ILMerge.exe /target:winexe /target:exe /out:filepath nameofexe mydll

It works well!

how to use ILMerge to combine several assemblies into one

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