System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid number of sections declared in PE header.

[jamescrosswell]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a hello world command line application in dotnet
2. Publish the application as a single file dotnet publish -c Release -p:PublishSingleFile=true
3. Try to open the resulting executable in ILSpy... it won't let you (it only let's you open dlls)... but you can rename it to a dll and then open it (or run ilspycmd which let's you specify any file, regardless of the extension)

Error message shown

System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid number of sections declared in PE header.

Details

• Tried with ILSpy for macOS arm64
• Version ILSpy version 7.2.0.0.rc
• ILSpy 7.2.1.6856 on Windows (obtained from the Microsoft Store) can open the same file without issue... It'd be great to know if there's a way to obtain that same version on macOS (I followed the links in the Readme.md file on this site to get the most recent build for Mac OS).

[christophwille]

You mean AvaloniaILSpy? That should be pretty far behind in terms of such functionality.

[jamescrosswell]

I see. Is there anything more recent available that will build for MacOS?