Serious trouble with ILMerge and .NET 4.0
For the life of me, I can't seem to get my .NET 4 application merging properly with ILMerge. Even after setting /targetplatform, /lib, /ndebug and adding a custom ILMerge.exe.config file the output file doesn't work properly (it doesn't seem to be able to "find" the merged libraries).
I've tried this and this to no avail. I can't even get it to build unless I use the config file, but when I do it doesn't work. Without the config file, I consistently get the error message "Unresolved assembly reference not allowed: PresentationFramework".
Here is the current state of my ILMerge command being used as a post build event:
ilmerge.exe /out:C:\Users\Logan\Development\Projects\OrangeNote\OrangeNote\bin\Release\OrangeNote.exe
/ndebug /targetplatform:v4,C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
/lib:"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319"
/lib:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies"
"C:\Users\Logan\Development\Projects\OrangeNote\OrangeNote\obj\Release\OrangeNote.exe"
"C:\Users\Logan\Development\Projects\OrangeNote\OrangeNote\..\..\..\Libraries\Lucene.Net\src\Lucene.Net\bin\Release\Lucene.Net.dll"
"C:\Users\Logan\Development\Projects\OrangeNote\OrangeNote\..\..\..\Libraries\Ookii.Dialogs\src\Ookii.Dialogs.Wpf\bin\Release\Ookii.Dialogs.Wpf.dll"
"C:\Users\Logan\Development\Projects\OrangeNote\OrangeNote\..\..\..\Libraries\SharpZipLib\bin\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll"
"C:\Users\Logan\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HumanInterfaceProject\HumanInterfaceProject\bin\Release\HipLib.dll"
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong??
Answer
One suggestion I have seen used to combine .dlls in WPF is to simply add the dll as an embedded resource the the project and then programatically load the dll into the assembly.
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += (sender, args) => {
String resourceName = "AssemblyLoadingAndReflection." +
new AssemblyName(args.Name).Name + ".dll";
using (var stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName)) {
Byte[] assemblyData = new Byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(assemblyData, 0, assemblyData.Length);
return Assembly.Load(assemblyData);
}
};