How to create a single self-contained executable of a dotnet 8 C# console app in vscode?
I am a beginner trying to learn C# on linux using vscode. When i run the command dotnet run, i know that an executable is created in the bin/debug folder. When i run the executable from within this folder it runs fine.But what i want is to be able to run a copy of this executable file from anywhere on my computer. I hope someone can help on this.
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$singlefile
dotnet publish -c Release -r <runtime identifier> -p:PublishSingleFile=true
Use of -p:PublishSingleFile=true implies --self-contained true. Add --self-contained false to publish as runtime-dependent.
-r RID and -p:PublishSingleFile=true can be moved to .csproj as the following properties:but to target multiple RIDs, you have to use dotnet publish with the -r option for each RID.
You can also add -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