On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:11 +0200, Michal Moskal wrote: > On 4/28/05, Jurek Bartuszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mono does not support native code DLLs from Windows when running on Linux. > > Are you 100% sure about that? > > No. Maybe some wine interop would do? I'm not an expert here.
I'm 100% sure that you can't load a Win32 DLL under Mono using the normal DllImport mechanism. Why? Because Mono's DllImport functionality is built on dlopen(3) and dlsym(3) (similar to LoadLibrary () and GetProcAddress() on Win32) -- it's the native OS loader. Linux/Unix doesn't support loading PE/COFF dynamic libraries into an ELF address space -- the loader file formats differ. That doesn't mean it's impossible. You could modify mono's loader to support PE/COFF binaries (non-trivial, but likely possible). A more practical approach would be to skip DllImport and manually do what DllImport does for you -- dlopen/dlsym -- but using a library that supports PE/COFF. Wine would be the logical way to do this, though I don't know how easy it would be to integrate Mono and Wine like this. - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
