Using ILMerge on .Net 2.0 Beta 2
I've some assemblies that I want to merge to one big assembly. I used to do it for .Net 1.1 with ILMerge, but now it fails since I'm compiling for the 2.0 framework.
The first thing that I tried was to download the latest bits (from three days ago, actually). That still didn't work, so I tried to use runtime binding, which would cause ILMerge to run on the .Net 2.0 platform. That worked!
Here is the binding that I used:
<configuration>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50215" />
</startup>
</configuration>
Just to note, any assemblies produced by ILMerge after this change will be a 2.0 assemblies, even if the originating assemblies were 1.0 or 1.1. I'm sure that there are other, arguably better, ways to solve this, but I simply saved the above file as ILMerge2.exe.config and copied the ILMerge.exe to ILMerge2.exe; now I can just call ilmerge2 when I want to merge files to a 2.0 assemby, and ilmerge when I want to merge to a 1.1 assembly.
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