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FSharp Standalone Assemblies |
F# assemblies can be compiled with a -standalone switch that embeds the F# runtime into the assembly, and allows it to run without requiring additional assemblies.
There is a bug in Excel-DNA v0.30 that prevents such assemblies to be loaded by Excel-DNA. The workaround is to:
- mark functions and macros that are to be exported with explicit
[<ExcelFunction>]or[<ExcelCommand>]attributes, and - set the 'ExplicitExports' flag on the ExternalLibrary tag in the .dna file:
<ExternalLibrary Path="..." ExplicitExports="true" />.
With these changes, F# libraries can be compiled with the standalone switch, and used as Excel-DNA add-ins without requiring additional F# libraries on the client.