[Mono-dev] p/invoke marshal struct to pointer

[Gladish, Jacob]

I'm using a third-party .NET wrapper around an unmanaged library that was intended for use on windows. I'm investigating whether this will work on work on Linux and am getting the following exception:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalDirectiveException: Can not marshal 'parameter #1': Pointers can not reference marshaled structures. Use byref instead.

I can confirm that the .NET wrapper is indeed trying to pass a pointer to a managed struct via p/invoke to an unmanaged function. I was curious if anyone could confirm to me whether that's a bug in the .NET wrapper or in the mono-runtime. This could runs fine on windows using the MS .NET runtime.

The mono runtime seems to have a specific check for this cause and throws the exception. I guess what's confusing is that if it's really not allowed, then why would the Microsoft runtime allow it?

Thanks
-jake


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