How can Fody be used to weave compiled dll's without using msbuild?

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I understand that by default Fody weaves assemblies as a post-build step in Visual Studio.

However I have a custom tool that directly compiles projects using csc.exe (Roslyn compiler). Is it possible to run Fody as an executable/service instead of a post-build step?

Something like this: fody.exe target.dll fody_settings.xml

We needed this exact feature and developped https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fody.StandAlone/ Feel free to use it and please report any bugs that you find :) — Laurent Nguyen, Apr 09 '17 at 11:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '15 at 05:29

Try this

write an exe.
In that exe reference the fody dll that is contained in the nuget
use this class and pass in the required properties https://github.com/Fody/Fody/blob/master/FodyIsolated/InnerWeaver.cs
you can see a use of this class here https://github.com/Fody/Fody/blob/master/Fody/Processor.cs#L139 note that in a console app you can ignore the remoting usage

Disclaimer: while these classes are public this is not considered an exposed API. So in minor version releases these classes may change.

How can Fody be used to weave compiled dll's without using msbuild?

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