February 11, 2019

136: I Love PInvoke

39 minutes

When you need to get something done, sometimes you have to write some C++. Or sometimes you have no choice because you were handed a C++ library and why not expose a beautiful C# layer to call form your mobile apps. Seems easy right? We take a look at the why, how, and struggles with doing so.

Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

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Links:

Use C/C++ libraries with Xamarin - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
SWIG Tutorial
SafeHandleZeroOrMinusOneIsInvalid Class (Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles) | Microsoft Docs
macos - Convert .a to .dylib in Mac osx - Stack Overflow
Visual C++ for Cross-Platform Mobile Development - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs

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