.Net 5 Publish Single File – Produces exe and dlls

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Its known issue that described here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/36590

And new dev experience provided here: https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/single-file/design.md#user-experience

So in your case you need use p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true additionaly.

Full command:

dotnet publish -c Release -o publish -p:PublishReadyToRun=true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true --self-contained true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

or include this flag in .csproj file

<PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
    <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
    <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <PlatformTarget>x64</PlatformTarget>
    
   <IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>true</IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>

</PropertyGroup>

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