diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e3acc427..5eed8636 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 /.phpunit.result.cache
 /.php-cs-fixer.cache
 /composer.lock
+/composer.phar
 /phpstan.neon
 /phpunit.xml
 /vendor/
-test_db*
\ No newline at end of file
+test_db*
diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..df8fb74f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/compile
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+
+ROOTPATH="`dirname $0`"
+ROOTPATH="`dirname $ROOTPATH`"
+COMPOSER="$ROOTPATH/composer.phar"
+
+echo " ==> Using composer $COMPOSER"
+echo " ==> Will generate $ROOTPATH/db-tools.phar"
+
+# Make a backup of the composer.json file.
+cp "$ROOTPATH/composer.json" "$ROOTPATH/composer.json.dist"
+
+if [ ! -e "$COMPOSER" ]; then
+    echo " ==> Download composer in $COMPOSER"
+    wget --quiet https://getcomposer.org/download/latest-stable/composer.phar -o "$COMPOSER"
+fi
+
+# Prepare composer, install without depdendencies.
+echo " ==> Prepare environment"
+rm -rf "$ROOTPATH/composer.lock"
+rm -rf "$ROOTPATH/vendor"
+
+# Install PHAR only tooling.
+echo " ==> Require compile-only dependencies"
+php "$COMPOSER" -n require --no-audit composer/pcre:'^3.1' seld/phar-utils:'^1.2'
+php "$COMPOSER" -n -q config autoloader-suffix DbToolsPhar
+php "$COMPOSER" -n install --no-dev
+php "$COMPOSER" -n config autoloader-suffix --unset
+
+# Compile PHAR file
+echo " ==> Running compilation"
+php -d phar.readonly=0 bin/compile.php
+chmod +x "$ROOTPATH/db-tools.phar"
+
+# Clean up environment
+echo " ==> Cleaning up environment"
+cp "$ROOTPATH/composer.json.dist" "$ROOTPATH/composer.json"
+rm -rf "$ROOTPATH/composer.lock" "$ROOTPATH/composer.json.dist"
+php "$COMPOSER" -n -q install
diff --git a/bin/compile.php b/bin/compile.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1b9f3c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/compile.php
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace MakinaCorpus\DbToolsBundle;
+
+use MakinaCorpus\DbToolsBundle\Bridge\Standalone\PharCompiler;
+
+/**
+ * Please run before running this:
+ *   $ composer config autoloader-suffix DbToolsPhar
+ *   $ composer install --no-dev
+ *   $ composer config autoloader-suffix --unset
+ *   $ php -d phar.readonly=0 bin/compile.php
+ */
+
+(static function (): void {
+    $autoloadFiles = [
+        __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php',
+        __DIR__ . '/../../../autoload.php',
+    ];
+
+    $autoloaderFound = false;
+    foreach ($autoloadFiles as $autoloadFile) {
+        if (!\file_exists($autoloadFile)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        require_once $autoloadFile;
+        $autoloaderFound = true;
+    }
+
+    if (!$autoloaderFound) {
+        if (\extension_loaded('phar') && \Phar::running() !== '') {
+            \fwrite(STDERR, 'The PHAR was built without dependencies!' . \PHP_EOL);
+            exit(1);
+        }
+        \fwrite(STDERR, 'vendor/autoload.php could not be found. Did you run `composer install`?' . \PHP_EOL);
+        exit(1);
+    }
+
+    $cwd = \getcwd();
+    \assert(\is_string($cwd));
+    \chdir(__DIR__.'/../');
+    $ts = \rtrim(\exec('git log -n1 --pretty=%ct HEAD'));
+    if (!\is_numeric($ts)) {
+        echo 'Could not detect date using "git log -n1 --pretty=%ct HEAD"'.\PHP_EOL;
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    \chdir($cwd);
+
+    \error_reporting(-1);
+    \ini_set('display_errors', '1');
+
+    $compiler = new PharCompiler();
+    $compiler->compile();
+    exit(1);
+})();
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 1544681a..f3ef10ca 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
         "makinacorpus/query-builder": "^1.6.1",
         "psr/log": "^3.0",
         "symfony/config": "^6.0|^7.0",
+        "symfony/console": "^6.0|^7.0",
         "symfony/filesystem": "^6.0|^7.0",
         "symfony/finder": "^6.0|^7.0",
         "symfony/options-resolver": "^6.0|^7.0",
@@ -34,12 +35,13 @@
         "symfony/validator": "^6.3|^7.0"
     },
     "suggest": {
-        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "For autoconfiguration in Symfony project context",
-        "symfony/console": "In order to use the standalone CLI tool or Symfony console commands",
         "symfony/password-hasher": "In order to use the password hash anonymizer"
     },
     "conflict": {
-        "symfony/console": "<6.0|>=8.0",
+        "composer/pcre": "<3.1|>=4.0",
+        "doctrine/dbal": "^<3.0|>=5.0",
+        "doctrine/orm": "^<2.15|>=4.0",
+        "seld/phar-utils": "<1.2|>=2.0",
         "symfony/password-hasher": "<6.0|>=8.0"
     },
     "autoload": {
diff --git a/phpstan.neon.dist b/phpstan.neon.dist
index 8e18fb09..f9a6985f 100644
--- a/phpstan.neon.dist
+++ b/phpstan.neon.dist
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ parameters:
     excludePaths:
         - src/DependencyInjection/DbToolsConfiguration.php
     checkMissingOverrideMethodAttribute: true
+    ignoreErrors:
+        - '#Instantiated class Seld\\PharUtils\\Timestamps not found.#'
+        - '#on an unknown class Seld\\PharUtils\\Timestamps.#'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Bridge/Standalone/PharCompiler.php b/src/Bridge/Standalone/PharCompiler.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..faa8df58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Bridge/Standalone/PharCompiler.php
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace MakinaCorpus\DbToolsBundle\Bridge\Standalone;
+
+use Composer\Pcre\Preg;
+use Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder;
+use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
+use Seld\PharUtils\Timestamps;
+
+/**
+ * The Compiler class compiles composer into a phar.
+ *
+ * Heavily inspired from composer code, all credits to their authors.
+ *
+ * @see https://github.com/composer/composer/blob/main/src/Composer/Compiler.php
+ * @see https://getcomposer.org/
+ */
+class PharCompiler
+{
+    private \DateTime $versionDate;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates the PHAR.
+     *
+     * @param ?string $pharFile
+     *   Full target PHAR file name.
+     */
+    public function compile(?string $pharFile = null): void
+    {
+        $pharFile ??= \dirname(__DIR__, 3) . '/db-tools.phar';
+
+        if (\file_exists($pharFile)) {
+            \unlink($pharFile);
+        }
+
+        $rootDir = \dirname(__DIR__, 3);
+
+        // Next line would fetch the current reference (commit hash or tag).
+        // $process = new Process(['git', 'log', '--pretty=%H', '-n1', 'HEAD'], $rootDir);
+
+        $process = new Process(['git', 'log', '-n1', '--pretty=%ci', 'HEAD'], $rootDir);
+        if ($process->run() !== 0) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('Can\'t run git log. You must ensure to run compile from composer git repository clone and that git binary is available.');
+        }
+
+        $this->versionDate = new \DateTime(\trim($process->getOutput()));
+        $this->versionDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('UTC'));
+
+        $phar = new \Phar($pharFile, 0, 'db-tools.phar');
+        $phar->setSignatureAlgorithm(\Phar::SHA512);
+
+        $phar->startBuffering();
+
+        $finderSort = static fn ($a, $b): int => \strcmp(\strtr($a->getRealPath(), '\\', '/'), \strtr($b->getRealPath(), '\\', '/'));
+
+        // Local package sources.
+        $finder = new Finder();
+        $finder->files()
+            ->ignoreVCS(true)
+            ->name('*.php')
+            ->notName('Compiler.php')
+            ->notName('ClassLoader.php')
+            ->notName('InstalledVersions.php')
+            ->in($rootDir.'/src')
+            ->sort($finderSort)
+        ;
+        foreach ($finder as $file) {
+            $this->addFile($phar, $file);
+        }
+        // Add runtime utilities separately to make sure they retains the docblocks as these will get copied into projects.
+        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo($rootDir . '/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php'), false);
+        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo($rootDir . '/vendor/composer/InstalledVersions.php'), false);
+
+        // Add vendor files
+        $finder = new Finder();
+        $finder->files()
+            ->ignoreVCS(true)
+            ->notPath('/\/(composer\.(json|lock)|[A-Z]+\.md(?:own)?|\.gitignore|appveyor.yml|phpunit\.xml\.dist|phpstan\.neon\.dist|phpstan-config\.neon|phpstan-baseline\.neon)$/')
+            ->notPath('/(.*\.(md|xml|twig|svg)|Dockerfile|phpbench\.json|yaml-lint|dev\.sh|docker-compose\.(yaml|yml)|run-tests\.sh)/')
+            ->notPath('/bin\/(jsonlint|validate-json|simple-phpunit|phpstan|phpstan\.phar)(\.bat)?$/')
+            ->notPath('justinrainbow/json-schema/demo/')
+            ->notPath('justinrainbow/json-schema/dist/')
+            ->notPath('composer/LICENSE')
+            ->exclude('Tests')
+            ->exclude('tests')
+            ->exclude('docs')
+            ->in($rootDir.'/vendor/')
+            ->sort($finderSort)
+        ;
+
+        $extraFiles = [];
+        foreach ([
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/composer/installed.json',
+            // CaBundle::getBundledCaBundlePath(),
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/composer/installed.json',
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/symfony/console/Resources/bin/hiddeninput.exe',
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/symfony/console/Resources/completion.bash',
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/symfony/console/Resources/completion.fish',
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/symfony/console/Resources/completion.zsh',
+            $rootDir . '/vendor/composer/installed.json',
+        ] as $file) {
+            $extraFiles[$file] = \realpath($file);
+            if (!\file_exists($file)) {
+                throw new \RuntimeException('Extra file listed is missing from the filesystem: '.$file);
+            }
+        }
+        $unexpectedFiles = [];
+
+        foreach ($finder as $file) {
+            if (false !== ($index = \array_search($file->getRealPath(), $extraFiles, true))) {
+                unset($extraFiles[$index]);
+            } elseif (!Preg::isMatch('{(^LICENSE$|\.php$)}', $file->getFilename())) {
+                $unexpectedFiles[] = (string) $file;
+            }
+
+            if (Preg::isMatch('{\.php[\d.]*$}', $file->getFilename())) {
+                $this->addFile($phar, $file);
+            } else {
+                $this->addFile($phar, $file, false);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (\count($extraFiles) > 0) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('These files were expected but not added to the phar, they might be excluded or gone from the source package:'.PHP_EOL.var_export($extraFiles, true));
+        }
+        if (\count($unexpectedFiles) > 0) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('These files were unexpectedly added to the phar, make sure they are excluded or listed in $extraFiles:'.PHP_EOL.var_export($unexpectedFiles, true));
+        }
+
+        // Add binary.
+        $phar->addFile($rootDir . '/bin/db-tools.php', 'bin/db-tools.php');
+        $content = \file_get_contents($rootDir.'/bin/db-tools');
+        $content = Preg::replace('{^#!/usr/bin/env php\s*}', '', $content);
+        $phar->addFromString('bin/db-tools', $content);
+
+        // Stubs
+        $phar->setStub(
+            <<<'EOT'
+            #!/usr/bin/env php
+            <?php
+            if (!\class_exists('Phar')) {
+                echo 'PHP\'s phar extension is missing. DbTools requires it to run. Enable the extension or recompile php without --disable-phar then try again.' . PHP_EOL;
+                exit(1);
+            }
+            Phar::mapPhar('db-tools.phar');
+            require 'phar://db-tools.phar/bin/db-tools';
+            __HALT_COMPILER();
+            EOT,
+        );
+
+        $phar->stopBuffering();
+
+        //$this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo($rootDir.'/LICENSE.md'), false);
+
+        unset($phar);
+
+        // re-sign the phar with reproducible timestamp / signature
+        $util = new Timestamps($pharFile);
+        $util->updateTimestamps($this->versionDate);
+        $util->save($pharFile, \Phar::SHA512);
+    }
+
+    private function getRelativeFilePath(\SplFileInfo $file): string
+    {
+        $rootDir = \dirname(__DIR__, 3);
+
+        $realPath = $file->getRealPath();
+        $pathPrefix = $rootDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
+        $pos = \strpos($realPath, $pathPrefix);
+        $relativePath = ($pos !== false) ? \substr_replace($realPath, '', $pos, \strlen($pathPrefix)) : $realPath;
+
+        return \strtr($relativePath, '\\', '/');
+    }
+
+    private function addFile(\Phar $phar, \SplFileInfo $file, bool $strip = true): void
+    {
+        $phar->addFile($this->getRelativeFilePath($file));
+    }
+}