Can I use mono's AOT feature to natively "pre-compile" .NET DLLs/EXEs to make them harder to reverse
- by Jared Updike
Can I use mono's AOT (Ahead of Time compilation) feature to natively "pre-compile" all or part of some of my own .NET DLLs (and or EXEs) to make them harder to reverse engineer? I'm using Windows (7 / x64 but I have an x86 XP machine as well) and .NET 3.5 (VS 2008) and I'm curious if mono/AOT can be/has been used for this purpose? (Tying them to x86 is acceptable at this point.)
See also this question where I tried this and had no luck.