[Mono-dev] [PATCH] Adding to the PInvoke search path.

[Bill Holmes]

After more discussion on IRC this it was decided to do this using the
dllmap and not an environment variable.

If the target is set to "." the declaring assembly directory will be
used when attempting to locate the un-manged library.

-bill

2009-06-03  Bill Holmes  <billholmes54 at gmail.com>

	* loader.c (mono_lookup_pinvoke_call): If the dllmap target is equal
	  to . the declaring assembly path will be used to find the shared
	  library first.

	Code is contributed under MIT/X11 license.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bill Holmes <billholmes54 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch was discussed on IRC last week.  We found that
> MS.Net uses the directory of the declaring assembly when searching for
> shared libraries to invoke unmanaged code.
>
> The outcome of the conversation was that we did not want the behavior
> by default in Mono.  However an environment variable could control
> this behavior.
>
> Whit this patch setting MONO_PINVOKE_SEARCH to USE_ASSEMBLY_PATH will
> enable this.
>
> -bill
>
> 2009-06-01  Bill Holmes  <billholmes54 at gmail.com>
>
>        * loader.c (mono_loader_init): Check for and process
>          the MONO_PINVOKE_SEARCH environment variable.
>
>        * loader.c (mono_lookup_pinvoke_call): If MONO_PINVOKE_SEARCH
>          is set to USE_ASSEMBLY_PATH, add the declaring assembly
>          directory to resolve shared libraries.
>
>        Code is contributed under MIT/X11 license.
>
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