.NET Core auto executable

Question

After creating my first console application with . NET Core on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2017 copied to my server Linux - Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (already with . NET Core installed).

I successfully executed the command:

Windows

> dotnet minhaApp.dll

Linux

$ dotnet minhaApp.dll

Now I want to have a independent executable, without needing the dotnet to execute. How do?

I wish to execute so:

Windows

> minhaApp.exe

Linux

$ ./minhaApp

Answer 1

Does not change almost anything. Normally you should set using as target a version of itself . NET Core. What changes is specify where it will run.

For Windows just give this command:

dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64

For Linux just change the target, but never did, probably ubuntu.16.04-x64 (see the catalog).

First you need to configure the csproj for the desired targets, something like this:

<PropertyGroup>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64/RuntimeIdentifiers>
</PropertyGroup>

The rest is just like the one you already know how to do.

Documentation.

Answer 2

Using Visual Studio itself, right-click on the project that should have the generated executable and then on Publish. Don’t just build it.

Then click Edit and set the executable destination. Then click Publish.