Trying to publish single executable in terminal in visual studio but I get error message

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Terminal is returning the following:

"Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.
Possible reasons for this include:
* You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.
* You intended to execute a .NET program, but dotnet--r does not exist.
* You intended to run a global tool, but a dotnet-prefixed executable with this name could not be found on the PATH."

Goal is to create a single executable file. This is what I input in terminal:

dotnet -r publish win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true --output "C:\Users\C124\OneDrive\Desktop\Single\"

What I have tried:

I am able to publish using Publish in Build menu but this gives me a setup file which is not what I want. Instead, I want one executable ready to go, not a setup file. Thank you so much!

Posted 19-Aug-24 16:33pm

Pada Temp

Updated 19-Aug-24 17:10pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2024-08-19T18:20:00

Solution 1

The "publish" has to be immediately after the "dotnet". You have "-r" in there. That has to be moved. The command must come first before any other options.

dotnet publish -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true --output "C:\Users\C124\OneDrive\Desktop\Single\"

Posted 19-Aug-24 18:20pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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Pada Temp 20-Aug-24 3:15am

Ah thank you. It works better, but I get a new error MSB4062: The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.RequiresFramework35SP1Assembly" task could not be loaded from the assembly Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core

Dave Kreskowiak 20-Aug-24 9:16am

The first thing you do is Google the error message: error msb4062 the microsoft.build.tasks.requiresframework35sp1assembly - Google Search[^].
Then you start reading the links and comparing against your situtation.

PIEBALDconsult 20-Aug-24 10:41am

Then brew a nice hot cup of tea.