Quick question, I have an application that has 3 dependent dlls they
are my c# project that were build outside my main project as they are
shared in multiple other projects. I compiled the app using csc and
got my exe created. Then I used ILMerge to merge all the dependent
dlls along with the main exe I created with csc and generated one
single output exe.
My question is, will it be possible to achive the result using csc or
al.exe?

Thanks,

On Jun 30, 5:00*pm, CSharper <cshar...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Quick question, I have an application that has 3 dependent dlls they
> are my c# project that were build outside my main project as they are
> shared in multiple other projects. I compiled the app using csc and
> got my exe created. Then I used ILMerge to merge all the dependent
> dlls along with the main exe I created with csc and generated one
> single output exe.
> My question is, will it be possible to achive the result using csc or
> al.exe?

Not that I'm aware of. That's precisely why ilmerge was created -
although frankly I think it's almost always better just to live with
having multiple assemblies.

Jon

On Jun 30, 11:33*am, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 5:00*pm, CSharper <cshar...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Quick question, I have an application that has 3 dependent dlls they
> > are my c# project that were build outside my main project as they are
> > shared in multiple other projects. I compiled the app using csc and
> > got my exe created. Then I used ILMerge to merge all the dependent
> > dlls along with the main exe I created with csc and generated one
> > single output exe.
> > My question is, will it be possible to achive the result using csc or
> > al.exe?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. That's precisely why ilmerge was created -
> although frankly I think it's almost always better just to live with
> having multiple assemblies.
>
> Jon

Thanks and I think I found another one, iexpress (win XP tool), this
has command line options to create self extracting exe and then launch
the primary application. If that one works, I will be fine with that
as well.

CSharper wrote:
> Quick question, I have an application that has 3 dependent dlls they
> are my c# project that were build outside my main project as they are
> shared in multiple other projects. I compiled the app using csc and
> got my exe created. Then I used ILMerge to merge all the dependent
> dlls along with the main exe I created with csc and generated one
> single output exe.
> My question is, will it be possible to achive the result using csc or
> al.exe?

I think you can generate .netmodule files for each project instead of .dll
files, then al.exe would link them together. But I think you might end up
with one assembly in multiple files, instead of multiple assemblies in one
file.

>
> Thanks,