C#•10mo ago

✅ debug

i want to make it so my file is just the exe or minimal files when i send it to people

!OP•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

willing to pay if anyone can help

!OP•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

Angius•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

$rule6

AAngius $rule6

MODiX•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

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Angius•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

The question has nothing to do with debugging either

Angius•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

$singlefile

AAngius $singlefile

MODiX•2/19/25, 4:39 PM

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, but be aware of drawbacks and consider using an installer framework instead of that property with PublishSingleFile.
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 |