How to include third party libraries in dotnet publish as single file?

Question

We have a WPF application that we are trying to publish as a single file.

I am running the command:

dotnet publish .\{path_to_projectA_csproj_file}.csproj -c Release --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishReadyToRun=true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true --nologo -v q --property WarningLevel=0 /clp:ErrorsOnly

It generates the following files:

Problem is, when trying to run it in test environment, it does not find a third party .dll. Error from event log:

The third party .dll is referenced in ProjectB that is referenced by ProjectA that I am trying to publish.

Third party .dll reference in ProjectB .csproj:

I tried:

using the "-p:IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract=true" publish parameter - did not help
setting build action to Content - did not help
settings .csproj parameters CopyToOutputDirectory and CopyToPublishDirectory to PreserveNewest - did not help

tl;dr how to include third party libraries into .exe file when publishing a dotnet application as single file?

Maybe you'll find something worth a read in the docs Single-file deployment. — Prolog
– Prolog, Commented Feb 2 at 18:33

StarshipBot · Accepted Answer · 2025-02-20 00:02:15Z

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The third-party .dll was compiled as 32-bit, so I had to add a "win-x86" runtime identifier to the project.

edited Feb 20 at 0:02

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answered Feb 19 at 12:38

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