C#•2y ago

vs code program wont run on another person's pc?

im trying to have my friend use a c# program i wrote in vs code

the console just closes right after it opens (with some text on it sometimes but it closes too quick to copy it or see it)

he uses windows 11 and i use windows 10 if that's any help.

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:15 AM

here's the code too:

message.txt2.83KB

Angius•4/22/24, 1:15 AM

What editor you use does not matter

Angius•4/22/24, 1:15 AM

How are you sending it?

Angius•4/22/24, 1:15 AM

How are you packaging it?

AAngius How are you sending it?

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:16 AM

sending it as a zip file

and the way im packaging it is just taking all the stuff from the debug folder in the bin folder

that's what it said to do online when i looked up how to build it

Angius•4/22/24, 1:16 AM

It said wrong, then

Angius•4/22/24, 1:16 AM

What you want to do is publish it

Angius•4/22/24, 1:16 AM

dotnet publish

dotnet publish

is the command

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:17 AM

ohhhhhhhhhh

Angius•4/22/24, 1:17 AM

You're also doing a lot with paths, including getting the location of the exe

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:17 AM

makes sense

Angius•4/22/24, 1:17 AM

Make sure none of those paths are actually user-dependent

Angius•4/22/24, 1:17 AM

As in, all of them are either created by the program, or universal

AAngius As in, all of them are either created by the program, or universal

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:18 AM

all of them are created by the program

Angius•4/22/24, 1:18 AM

That should be fine, then

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:18 AM

alr nice

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:19 AM

btw they dont have to install .net right?

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:19 AM

just checkingf

Angius•4/22/24, 1:19 AM

Ah, well, depends

Angius•4/22/24, 1:19 AM

You can make it so that they don't need to install it, yeah

Angius•4/22/24, 1:19 AM

But by default, yes, they would need to install at least the runtime, not the entire SDK

Angius•4/22/24, 1:20 AM

If you want to package the .NET runtime with your app, here: $singlefile

AAngius If you want to package the .NET runtime with your app, here: $singlefile

MODiX•4/22/24, 1:20 AM

dotnet publish -c Release -r <runtime identifier> -p:PublishSingleFile=true
dotnet publish -c Release -r <runtime identifier> -p:PublishSingleFile=true

Use of

-p:PublishSingleFile=true

-p:PublishSingleFile=true

implies

--self-contained true

--self-contained true

. Add

--self-contained false

--self-contained false

to publish as runtime-dependent.

-r RID

-r RID

and

-p:PublishSingleFile=true

-p:PublishSingleFile=true

can be moved to .csproj as the following properties:

<RuntimeIdentifier>RID</RuntimeIdentifier>
<PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>

<RuntimeIdentifier>RID</RuntimeIdentifier>
<PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>

but to target multiple RIDs, you have to use

dotnet publish

dotnet publish

with the

-r

-r

option for each RID.
You can also add

-p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

-p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

to include native libraries (like Common Language Runtime dlls) in the output executable.
You might want to instead publish your application compiled Ahead Of Time to native code, see $nativeaot for examples.
Single file publishing | Runtime Identifier (RID) catalog |

dotnet publish

dotnet publish

Angius•4/22/24, 1:20 AM

That

--self-contained

--self-contained

flag is what does it

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:21 AM

what do i put in runtime identifier?

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:21 AM

like the .net version it uses?

Angius•4/22/24, 1:22 AM

No, the system identifier, basically

Angius•4/22/24, 1:22 AM

win-32

win-32

for example

Angius•4/22/24, 1:22 AM

Check the link to the RID catalogue

Angius•4/22/24, 1:22 AM

Actually,

win-x64

win-x64

Angius•4/22/24, 1:23 AM

This is the one for Windows

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:23 AM

ok nice

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:23 AM

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true

so this'd work?

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:23 AM

just checking

Angius•4/22/24, 1:23 AM

Yep

/home/protogenpostingOP•4/22/24, 1:24 AM

nice

vs code program wont run on another person's pc?

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