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mkaring / ConfuserEx

An open-source, free protector for .NET applications
https://mkaring.github.io/ConfuserEx/
MIT License
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Selectable Assembly Packing [Feature] #23

Open alexmurari opened 5 years ago

alexmurari commented 5 years ago

The compressor doesn't allow to select which assemblies you do want to pack into your executable module.

Let's say you have 5 DLLs, but you only want the compressor to pack three of them into your EXE, the other two you want as-is, unpacked.

Today all DLLs are packed. This issue is to request a feature to allow you to choose which assemblies will be packed.

mkaring commented 5 years ago

I got this on my todo list. I actually want to extend this to a ILMerge like feature as alternative to the compressor, where both can be activated per assembly.

mkaring commented 5 years ago

Thinking about it some more it may also be handy if it can be declared what the target assembly for the packer is. So you don't have to pack everything into the main assembly. This way it would be covered if you have a applications with multiple executables that use the same “main“ assembly. For example how dnspy does it with the 64bit and the 32bit executable.

alexmurari commented 5 years ago

@mkaring Agree. This would provide the necessary flexibility when packing the application, specially when dealing with multi-platform executables. I think it would be great!