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RadiantMin3
RadiantMin3

Reputation: 103

Using c# code from a native c++ application

I am working on a basic 2D C++ Game engine but i want to be able to use C# to make games with it like unity does but I'm not sure how to do it. I've seen people saying about CLI but not sure exactly how that works. I want to be able to access functions on the engine in C# and be able to have the engine run the C# code.

Thanks for any help with this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Blindy
Blindy

Reputation: 67352

Right now you have two big ways of doing this:

  1. Make your C# application generate COM objects which you can consume from C++. Performance is a bit iffy, but doable and very simple.

  2. Use reverse PInvoke, where you export functions from your C++ application with in function pointers that you fill in from the C# side with delegates to the functions that drive your code.

In .Net 5, there's a third way: you can directly export C# functions from your assemblies to be consumed in a platform-independent way, like in C++ (ie, .dll or .so exports).

Upvotes: 5

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