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Eric
Eric

Reputation: 1243

Exporting functions from .NetNative DLL

From what i know writing a DLL in C# that exports C-Style functions that can be loaded from a native application written in a language like C or C++ is not directly possible due to the nature of language (IL, JIT Compiler). The only information incould find about achieving such a thing involved COM or some C++/CLI glue code.

However the official Microsoft Documentation says the following about .NetNative:

NET Native uses the same back end as the C++ compiler, which is optimized for static precompilation scenarios.

Does this mean writing a native DLL is possible using .Netnative? And if yes, how?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

David Browne - Microsoft
David Browne - Microsoft

Reputation: 89051

Does this mean writing a native DLL is possible using .Netnative?

No. The problem that COM Interop and C++/CLI solve is that there's no way to express a C/C++ compatible function export with C#. Both of them allow you to do that and to marshal data from .NET types to C/C++ types.

And .NET Native compiles whole apps, not individual libraries.

Upvotes: 2

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