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Can a C#/.NET application be compiled to native binaries using .NET Native without being a UWP application? For example, a 4.5 console app? I've watched over 2 hours of video on .NET Native and also read docs but they did not clearly answer this question.
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NET Native is a precompilation technology for building and deploying UWP apps. . NET Native is included with Visual Studio 2015 and later versions. It automatically compiles the release version of UWP apps that are written in managed code (C# or Visual Basic) to native code.
NET Framework is a software development framework for building and running applications on Windows. . NET Framework is part of the . NET platform, a collection of technologies for building apps for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and more.
The native AOT deployment model uses an ahead of time compiler to compile IL to native code at the time of publish. Native AOT apps don't use a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler when the application runs. Native AOT apps can run in restricted environments where a JIT is not allowed.
There are not a perfect solution for this but serveral alternatives:
Native AOT, formerly called 'Core RT', which supports full native compilation from managed dlls to binary executables on the target platform(OS and CPU Arch), but it is still marked as 'experimental' with a lot of features missing.
IL2CPP, which is developed and used only by Unity.
CrossGen, which is a part of CoreCLR and could generate .ni.dll files which contains precompiled (native code on specific platform) code rather than IL code in normal managed dll, making it faster loading. But it still requires the runtime because it is basically still a managed dll with JIT compilation already done (AOT).
Note that .NET Framework is going to be obsolete with .NET Core becoming the unified .NET, and you can easily hear from some news about native compilation support if you keep watching .NET Core things
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