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> AOT is entirely independent of single file binaries.

splitting hairs, but its is not independent. AoT is a required pre-requisite for single-binary creation. You can't create single-binaries with JIT. And that is the big hurdle, lot of libraries do not support AoT and that is the blocker to create single-file binary. Once you have the AoT figured out, the single-binary creation is easy.

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Yes, you can. I am using that in production right now. An ASP.NET Core application as a self-contained single-file binary, without AOT.

.NET AOT right now is a very specialized solution that isn't widely applicable. Self-contained and single-file binaries do work pretty much out of the box already.

See the documention here for the PublishSingleFile and SelfContained options:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...

Other way around, enabling AoT requires you also enable single-file

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