I had vague recollections that there were some ifdefs in the managed code which made it platform specific, but I could be wrong or they could just be gone nowadays. Jonp probably knows best ;)
Either way, if you deploy it without the matching native lib you can hit crashes, so the simplest option all round is to just rely on the system one, if at all possible :) Alan On 30 March 2016 at 13:06, Chris Swiedler <cswied...@trionworlds.com> wrote: > To Alan's point, we did see crashes when we (unintentionally) deployed > Mono.Posix.dll along with our app. Our solution was, like he said, to Not > Do That, and use our Mono.Posix as a compile-time library only. > > I do think it's much easier to do it this way than to have different > compile targets, which (if I'm understanding correctly) is what the other > suggestions all require. > > chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto: > mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Pryor > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:04 AM > To: Alan McGovern <alan.mcgov...@gmail.com> > Cc: mono-devel-list <mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com> > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Cross Platform on Linux/Windows with Mono.Posix > reference on Linux > > 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 >
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