Publish Self-Contained dotnet applications

.NET Core 1.1 – How to publish a self-contained application

in .csproj file add this line into <PropertyGroup> tags

<RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>

win10-x64 is identifier of the operating system where we aim to publish.

To target more than one operating system

<RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64;osx.10.11-x64;ubuntu.16.10-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>

After saved the changes, it is necessary to run the following command to restore the dependencies:

dotnet restore

To generate the self-contained application, run the following command:

dotnet publish -c release -r win10-x64

there is also --output parameter to copy published app to a specified folder

Runtime Identifiers List

visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog to get most up-to-date list.

List

Windows RIDs

• Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2
  • win7-x64
  • win7-x86
• Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012
  • win8-x64
  • win8-x86
  • win8-arm
• Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2
  • win81-x64
  • win81-x86
  • win81-arm
• Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016
  • win10-x64
  • win10-x86
  • win10-arm
  • win10-arm64

Linux RIDs

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • rhel.7-x64
• Ubuntu
  • ubuntu.14.04-x64
  • ubuntu.14.10-x64
  • ubuntu.15.04-x64
  • ubuntu.15.10-x64
  • ubuntu.16.04-x64
  • ubuntu.16.10-x64
• CentOS
  • centos.7-x64
• Debian
  • debian.8-x64
• Fedora
  • fedora.23-x64
  • fedora.24-x64
• OpenSUSE
  • opensuse.13.2-x64
  • opensuse.42.1-x64
• Oracle Linux
  • ol.7-x64
  • ol.7.0-x64
  • ol.7.1-x64
  • ol.7.2-x64
• Currently supported Ubuntu derivatives
  • linuxmint.17-x64
  • linuxmint.17.1-x64
  • linuxmint.17.2-x64
  • linuxmint.17.3-x64
  • linuxmint.18-x64

OS X RIDs

• osx.10.10-x64
• osx.10.11-x64
• osx.10.12-x64