❔ Any tutorial on wrapping an open source C++ library for providing a cross-platform NuGet package?
The library in specific is https://github.com/NanoMichael/MicroTeX and I would want to provide a NuGet package that users can just install and use just like SkiaSharp on any .NET platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Browser). Using latest .NET practice is desirable - like LibraryImport from .NET 7.
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You have to use P/Invoke and add the .dll, .so or .dylib files along with your dotnet project
Why would you need a tutorial on that, it is pretty straight forward, just search for the docs on DllImport and learn a bit of P/Invoke
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so compiling for each and every platform combination?
No .NET 7 LibraryImport?
The difference between DllImport and LibraryImport is that Dllimport might emit dynamic stubs and increase working set + regress startup time
However there is the
[DisableRuntimeMarshalling] to have your DllImports be implicitly marshalling free. Which makes the LibraryImport kind of useless.
But I guess you should be using LibraryImport, most likely won't make much of a difference
but learn P/Invoke and how to ship the dependency files within your nuget packageMost P/Invoke tutorials assume Windows
which is why I wanted another tutorial
that would cover cross platform Windows/Linux/macOS/iOS/Android/Browser
starting from source code and not compiled binaries
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