ilmerge plugin - similar to shaded JARs

[John Fallows <jo...@kaazing.com>]

Devs,

Microsoft has recently released a tool called ILMerge.exe which can take
multiple assemblies and rewrite them into a single primary assembly,
optionally internalizing all public references in the dependent assemblies,
while leaving the public signatures in the primary assembly unmodified.

  o
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17630

There is clearly great benefit to this tool because it allows the various
different pieces of the final artifact to be developed as independent
artifacts, and packaged for simplicity as a final build step into a single
artifact for delivery, much like the shade plugin does for Java JARs.

Unfortunately, the tool seems to be Windows specific due to some unmanaged,
platform-specific calls via p/invoke.  However, there is another tool,
called il-repack which provides equivalent functionality, is cross-platform
supporting mono, and is command-line flag compatible with ILMerge.exe.

  o http://code.google.com/p/il-repack/

If we create an ilmerge plugin for NPanday, using ILMerge.exe by default,
then the command executable can be overridden by configuration (perhaps via
profile in settings.xml) to pick up il-repack on non-Windows platforms for
example.

Any objections to this strategy?

tc,
-john.
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Re: ilmerge plugin - similar to shaded JARs

[Lars Corneliussen <me...@lcorneliussen.de>]

agreed.

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Am 06.07.2011 um 02:38 schrieb Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>:

> 
> On 06/07/2011, at 9:28 AM, John Fallows wrote:
> 
>> If we create an ilmerge plugin for NPanday, using ILMerge.exe by default,
>> then the command executable can be overridden by configuration (perhaps via
>> profile in settings.xml) to pick up il-repack on non-Windows platforms for
>> example.
>> 
>> Any objections to this strategy?
> 
> 
> Sounds great. This isn't too dissimilar to the way the compiler, nunit, etc. are handled anyway.
> 
> - Brett
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Re: ilmerge plugin - similar to shaded JARs

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

On 06/07/2011, at 9:28 AM, John Fallows wrote:

> If we create an ilmerge plugin for NPanday, using ILMerge.exe by default,
> then the command executable can be overridden by configuration (perhaps via
> profile in settings.xml) to pick up il-repack on non-Windows platforms for
> example.
> 
> Any objections to this strategy?


Sounds great. This isn't too dissimilar to the way the compiler, nunit, etc. are handled anyway.

- Brett

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