ILRepack.Lib.MSBuild.Task

MSBuild task for ILRepack which is an open-source alternative to ILMerge.

Install via NuGet

  Install-Package ILRepack.Lib.MSBuild.Task

Supported build tools

• MSBuild

Usage

You just need to install NuGet package to merge all your project dependencies. If you want to customize the process then you can create a file named "ILRepack.targets" in your project folder. You can create it like shown below.

Example "ILRepack.targets"

<!-- ILRepack -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
    <Target Name="ILRepacker" AfterTargets="Build" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">

    <ItemGroup>
        <InputAssemblies Include="$(OutputPath)\ExampleAssemblyToMerge1.dll" />
        <InputAssemblies Include="$(OutputPath)\ExampleAssemblyToMerge2.dll" />
        <InputAssemblies Include="$(OutputPath)\ExampleAssemblyToMerge3.dll" />
    </ItemGroup>

    <ItemGroup>
        <!-- Must be a fully qualified name -->
        <DoNotInternalizeAssemblies Include="ExampleAssemblyToMerge3" />
    </ItemGroup>

    <ILRepack
        Parallel="true"
        Internalize="true"
        InternalizeExclude="@(DoNotInternalizeAssemblies)"
        InputAssemblies="@(InputAssemblies)"
        TargetKind="Dll"
        OutputFile="$(OutputPath)\$(AssemblyName).dll"
    />

    </Target>
</Project>
<!-- /ILRepack -->

Configuration

You need to create "ILRepack.Config.props" file in your project folder to configure the behavior of ILRepack.Lib.MSBuild.Task.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

You can specify following options inside the <PropertyGroup> element to configure the behavior of the ILRepack task.

Specify your custom Targets file path

If you don't want to add "ILRepack.targets" file in your project folder then you can specify your targets file path as shown below.

<ILRepackTargetsFile>$(SolutionDir)ILRepack.targets</ILRepackTargetsFile>

Specify Key File to use for signing

You can specify the path of the SNK file you want to use for signing your assembly as shown below. This configuration option only applies if you are using default targets file provided in NuGet package.

<KeyFile>$(ProjectDir)ILRepack.snk</KeyFile>

Specify whether to clear directory after merging

If you are using default targets file then you may notice that it clears Output directory after merging dependencies. You can turn this functionality off by setting ClearOutputDirectory to False as shown below.

<ClearOutputDirectory>False</ClearOutputDirectory>

Task options