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ILMerge error: "try to set ILMergeDebugInfo to false"

I'm using Winforms to make an exe that can open a web page. The following are the dependencies I use:

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Then I introduced ILMerge and MSBuild.ILMerge.Task, and then regenerated the project in order to merge these dependencies into the exe, but the following error occurred

Possible reason: some of the merge assemblies have portable PDBs. Try to set lLMergeDebuginfo to false.

ILMerge.Merge: There were errors reported in CefSharp.Core.Runtime's metadata. Unsupported PDB deleted bitset is not empty.

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What's happening and how to fix this issue? Or is there any other more reliable way to merge dll into exe?

Solution

  • CefSharp relies on a bunch of unmanaged dlls to get its job done.

    They can't be merged, so there is very little point in trying to merge at all.

    Universal one-file deployment is a setup.exe installer, that's no problem.