How to build the win-x64 executable?

[christescu]

In order to build the executable I use: dotnet publish --self-contained true in VSCode.
The executable works good, however size is ten time bigger compared to the released file from assets.
What method is used to get such small size exe file?

[tautcony]

Well... the answer is in your command argument, --self-contained will include all the necessary dependencies to make it run without installing dotnet runtime.

[christescu]

Yes, that's clear, but how should I proceed to get exactly the released Ista-patcher.exe file from provided source code?

[tautcony]

All released files are built by github action, check command here:

ISTA-Patcher/.github/workflows/build.yml

Line 51 in 4ffd9f6

run: dotnet publish src/ISTA-Patcher --configuration ${{ matrix.configuration }} --runtime ${{ matrix.runtime-identifier }} --no-self-contained