✅ What's the performant way of calling into native DLLs in .NET 7?
Hi, I want to learn about making a library that maps a native DLL to be used in C# (namely the vulkan dll. I know things like Silk.NET exist and the like. I mainly want to do it for the educational purposes). I've had a look online and seen a few examples of doing this, but wanted to know what the most performant way of doing this is in modern versions of .NET where for a library like Vulkan you are making many many calls into the Vulkan library each frame. Any advice is appreciated, thanks. 🙂
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So generally speaking, just DLLImport'ing the functions I want to use should be just fine?
You might wanna use
LoadLibraryLibraryImport instead of DLLImportThanks, I will look into it
Sorry, it's
LibraryImport not LoadLibrary
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Between LibraryImport and DLLImport?
The IL marshaling stub is source generated at compile time instead of runtimeP/Invoke source generation - .NET
Learn about compile-time source generation for platform invokes in .NET.
Yeah I think it was just introduced in .NET 7, not sure if it existed in .NET 6 but wasn't publicly available or not
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