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I followed the steps here. Do you happen to know how to build the command-line app in to an executable?

I was able to run it with 'dnx run', but not sure how to build it

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You have to use dnu.

To restore packages:

    $ dnu restore

To build:

    $ dnu build

To run:

    $ dnx run

To run some other command:

    $ dnx <COMMAND_HERE>

I was able to use 'dnu build', but that looks like it builds a dll and places it in a folder. I was curious if it's possible to build a single executable (similar to go) that can be run. Also, 'dnx run' is slightly slow so I wanted to see if the performance hit was less after building an exe.

Soon, but not quite yet. you'll be able to "dotnet compile" in a folder and that'll make stuff, and then "dotnet compile --native" will give you a single linked executable.

Ah! What you're looking for is dotnet/cli[0].

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/cli

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