diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1f8a9c52..ae12b8e6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ gh-pages/
 .idea/
 artifacts/
 /Confuser.Protections/runtime
-/Confuser.Protections/runtime
+*.binlog
diff --git a/Confuser.Core/CoreComponent.cs b/Confuser.Core/CoreComponent.cs
index 7ae6d7a8..d39ad7fe 100644
--- a/Confuser.Core/CoreComponent.cs
+++ b/Confuser.Core/CoreComponent.cs
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ protected internal override void Initialize(ConfuserContext context) {
 			context.Registry.RegisterService(_RandomServiceId, typeof(IRandomService), new RandomService(_context.Project.Seed));
 			context.Registry.RegisterService(_MarkerServiceId, typeof(IMarkerService), new MarkerService(context, marker));
 			context.Registry.RegisterService(_TraceServiceId, typeof(ITraceService), new TraceService());
-			context.Registry.RegisterService(_RuntimeServiceId, typeof(IRuntimeService), new RuntimeService());
+			context.Registry.RegisterService(_RuntimeServiceId, typeof(IRuntimeService), new RuntimeService(context));
 			context.Registry.RegisterService(_CompressionServiceId, typeof(ICompressionService), new CompressionService(context));
 			context.Registry.RegisterService(_APIStoreId, typeof(IAPIStore), new APIStore(context));
 		}
diff --git a/Confuser.Core/Services/RuntimeService.cs b/Confuser.Core/Services/RuntimeService.cs
index 4d4edae4..fe94c9ca 100644
--- a/Confuser.Core/Services/RuntimeService.cs
+++ b/Confuser.Core/Services/RuntimeService.cs
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@
 using dnlib.DotNet;
 
 namespace Confuser.Core.Services {
-	internal class RuntimeService : IRuntimeService {
+	internal class RuntimeService : IRuntimeService {
+		private readonly ConfuserContext context;
 		ModuleDef rtModule;
 
+		public RuntimeService(ConfuserContext context) {
+			this.context = context;
+		}
+
 		/// <inheritdoc />
 		public TypeDef GetRuntimeType(string fullName) {
 			if (rtModule == null) {
@@ -16,7 +21,9 @@ public TypeDef GetRuntimeType(string fullName) {
 		}
 
 		private void LoadConfuserRuntimeModule() {
-			const string runtimeDllName = "Confuser.Runtime.dll";
+			var entryPoint = this.context.Project[0].Resolve(this.context.Project.BaseDirectory);
+			var hasMscorlib = entryPoint.GetAssemblyRef("mscorlib") != null;
+			var runtimeDllName = hasMscorlib ? "runtime\\net472\\Confuser.Runtime.dll" : "runtime\\net8.0\\Confuser.Runtime.dll";
 
 			var module = typeof(RuntimeService).Assembly.ManifestModule;
 			string rtPath = runtimeDllName;
diff --git a/Confuser.Protections/Confuser.Protections.csproj b/Confuser.Protections/Confuser.Protections.csproj
index 4a2625df..ed84a3ac 100644
--- a/Confuser.Protections/Confuser.Protections.csproj
+++ b/Confuser.Protections/Confuser.Protections.csproj
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup Label="Assembly Settings">
     <TargetFrameworks>net472;net8.0</TargetFrameworks>
+    <RuntimeProject>..\Confuser.Runtime\Confuser.Runtime.csproj</RuntimeProject>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <PropertyGroup Label="Assembly Information">
@@ -12,16 +13,56 @@
     <Description>Protections and packers of ConfuserEx</Description>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup Label="Nuget Dependencies">
-    <PackageReference Include="System.ValueTuple" Version="4.6.2" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
   <ItemGroup Label="Project Dependencies">
     <ProjectReference Include="..\Confuser.DynCipher\Confuser.DynCipher.csproj" />
     <ProjectReference Include="..\Confuser.Renamer\Confuser.Renamer.csproj" />
-    <ProjectReference Include="..\Confuser.Runtime\Confuser.Runtime.csproj" Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net472'" />
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\Confuser.Runtime\Confuser.Runtime.csproj" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />  
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <Import Project="..\ConfuserEx.Common.targets" Condition="Exists('..\ConfuserEx.Common.targets')" />
 
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <RuntimeProjectFramework Include="$(TargetFrameworks)" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <Target Name="BuildRuntimeProject" BeforeTargets="Build">
+
+    <MSBuild Projects="$(RuntimeProject)" Targets="Build" 
+             Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);TargetFramework=%(RuntimeProjectFramework.Identity)" 
+             BuildInParallel="true" />
+
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="CollectRuntimeOutputs" DependsOnTargets="BuildRuntimeProject" AfterTargets="Build">
+
+    <!-- Query each TFM output -->
+    <MSBuild Projects="$(RuntimeProject)" Targets="GetTargetPath" Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);TargetFramework=%(RuntimeProjectFramework.Identity)" BuildInParallel="true">
+
+      <Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" ItemName="RuntimeOutputs" />
+
+    </MSBuild>
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <RuntimeOutputsNetFramework Include="@(RuntimeOutputs)" Condition="'%(TargetFrameworkVersion)' == '4.7.2'" />
+      <RuntimeOutputsNet Include="@(RuntimeOutputs)" Condition="'%(TargetFrameworkVersion)' == '8.0'" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+    <Copy SourceFiles="@(RuntimeOutputsNetFramework)" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)runtime\net472\" />
+    <Copy SourceFiles="@(RuntimeOutputsNet)" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)runtime\net8.0\" />
+
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="RegisterExtraFiles" DependsOnTargets="CollectRuntimeOutputs" BeforeTargets="GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems">
+
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <ContentWithTargetPath Include="@(RuntimeOutputsNet)">
+        <TargetPath>runtime\net8.0\%(Filename)%(Extension)</TargetPath>
+        <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+      </ContentWithTargetPath>
+      <ContentWithTargetPath Include="@(RuntimeOutputsNetFramework)">
+        <TargetPath>runtime\net472\%(Filename)%(Extension)</TargetPath>
+        <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+      </ContentWithTargetPath>
+    </ItemGroup>
+
+  </Target>
+
+</Project>