dnSpy VS ILRepack

Compare dnSpy vs ILRepack and see what are their differences.

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dnSpy ILRepack
91 3
16,556 1,088
- -
7.6 9.2
over 3 years ago 3 days ago
C# C#
- Apache License 2.0
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dnSpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of dnSpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.

ILRepack

Posts with mentions or reviews of ILRepack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-14.
  • .net framework single file
    1 project | /r/csharp | 14 Mar 2022
    ILRepack might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/gluck/il-repack
  • Assembly.Load alternative?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 14 Dec 2021
    Combine applications by merging IL, not by storing it in resources. (il-merge, il-repack and unknown to me 'libz', or write your own merger using Mono.Cecil or dnLib)
  • Is there any internal command line parser in dotnet
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Jun 2021
    Depending on which version of .NET you're building with, there are various tools to allow you to statically link all of your assemblies into one executable. Examples are ILMerge for .NET Framework and ILRepack for .NET Core.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dnSpy and ILRepack you can also consider the following projects:

ILSpy - .NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform!

ILMerge - ILMerge is a static linker for .NET Assemblies.

Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies

dnSpy-Unity-mono - Fork of Unity mono that's used to compile mono.dll with debugging support enabled

Mono.Cecil - Cecil is a library to inspect, modify and create .NET programs and libraries.

command-line-api - Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.

Il2CppDumper - Unity il2cpp reverse engineer

dnlib - Reads and writes .NET assemblies and modules

AssetRipper - GUI Application to work with engine assets, asset bundles, and serialized files

Gt.SubProcess - A library to run sub-processes on .net