On Mar 30, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Alan <alan.mcgov...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you package Mono.Posix.dll your app *will crash* on different systems.
Not necessarily. > This binary is platform specific and is not safe to copy between OS’s. Mono.Posix.dll *itself* contains no platform-specific code and is perfectly safe to copy between operating systems. Mono.Posix.dll contains P/Invokes into “MonoPosixHelper” (libMonoPosixHelper.dylib on OS X, MonoPosixHelper.dll on Windows, etc.), and MonoPosixHelper contains operating system-specific code. It *cannot* be copied between operating systems; it’s a native library. > It's fine to have a copy of Mono.Posix.dll used purely for compilation > purposes. But at runtime you have to use the system provided one, which > typically means the one provided by the system's mono installation. It’s entirely fine to include Mono.Posix.dll with your app, SO LONG AS you *also* copy and distribute MonoPosixHelper with your app. Additionally, Mono.Posix.dll also P/Invokes other native libraries such as INTL.DLL (Mono.Unix.Catalog) and MSVCRT.DLL (Mono.Unix.Native.Stdlib), which should be usable on Windows (so long as you also distribute INTL.DLL, etc.). - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
