I prefer option 5 - "In code configuration", yes yes yes, you lose change-without-recompile benefit, but in depends on what you need. If you know that you will never change your endpoints or will change it rarely - just do your configuration in code, you will get compile time checking as a bonus =) This and this can help.
You could use svcutil as a post-build event in the application that is consuming the DLL. Like this.
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