Embed FSUIPCClient.dll in .EXE

[vgmarimon]

Hi, it's possible to embed .DLL file into .EXE in VS2013?

 

Many Thx.

[Paul Henty]

Not with Visual Studio. You can download a tool called ILMerge that will merge the .exe and the dlls into a single .exe after they are compiled by VS. It's a command line utility but it's quite simple to use.

 

You can get it here:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17630

 

Here is an example of the command to merge my example project .exe with the FSUIPCClient.dll. This is run from the folder with the two files in, e.g. the bin/release folder, so 'cd' there first.

"C:\program files (x86)\microsoft\ilmerge\ilmerge.exe" FSUIPCCLientExample_CSharp.exe FSUIPCClient.dll /out:ExampleMerged.exe /target:winexe /targetplatform:v4 /log:mergelog.log /ndebug

After the ilmerge.exe command, list the name of the main .exe followed by all the dlls you want to merge (I just have one in this example).

 

Set the /out: parameter to the name you want your single .exe to be.

 

Then add the other options, but make sure you set the target platform correctly, i.e. if you're targeting version 2 of the .NET runtime then you would need /targetplatform:v2. In my example I was targeting version 4.0.

 

Paul

[vgmarimon]

Many Thx, command line better, runs fine.