Thanks, that's encouraging news. But you definitely have to compile the DLLs
for Linux don't you - I'm right in assuming that pinvoke on Mono won't call
into native Windows DLLs?
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On Fri 19/12/08 1:07 AM , Maser, Dan dan.ma...@inin.com sent:
In my mono application I have PInvokes that run on both Windows and Linux
and in my experience it works and you don't even have to change the source
code from .dll to .so. If you put the module name
only in the source code then the right thing happens. The MS.NET knowns to
append .dll when looking for the file and Mono knows to try
both .dll and .so when running on Linux.
Additionally, I think there's something about an xml file you can put in
the same directory as your assembly that acts as a mapping where you can
tell mono when looking for foo.dll you should try bar.so that
you can use if you don't want the Windows and Linux libraries to have the
same name.
Of course you have to pay close attention to using the correct decorations
for calling conventions on both libraries.
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[mono-winforms-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf
Of mcgdSent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:42 AM
To: mono-winforms-l...@lists.ximian.comsubject: [Mono-winforms-list] Porting
application that calls windows and
other DLLs
Hi,
I've been asked to try and get a .NET 1.1 application working under Mono.
It makes quite a few Windows API calls, but also calls several other
DLLsusing PInvoke. Most of these DLLs can probably be recompiled under
Linux,but probably not all.
From looking around, it seems that it's not
possible to call Windows DLLsvia PInvoke using Mono, but I wanted to make
sure this is the case.
Someonementioned something called ctypes as a way of doing this, but
this seemsto be a Python thing.
I'd appreciate input on what my options might be available here, and
whetherit's worth trying to go further. A few other specific questions -
answersor URLs appreciated:
- Is there any way at all to get the equivalent of calls into User32.dll?
Most of these are in User32.dll. The application is very
GUI-intensive.
- Is it possible to use Wine to run the DLLs? I've seen references to
thisidea, but I don't think I've found anything concrete.
- If the other DLLs could be recompiled into .so files under Linux, can
Iuse PInvoke without changing anything except .dll into
.so, or doparameter names and types need to be changed too? (i.e. would
this
possiblybe a significant porting effort in its own right?)
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