[Mono-dev] Compiling Mono Runtime in VS2010

[Robert Jordan]

On 28.06.2010 12:22, guysherman wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for that, that helps a little, but I think I still need to free in
> one case, that is mono_string_to_utf16, I need to free the LPTSTR that I get
> back afterwards (the example in test-invoke does). Is this where I would
> call mono_free? Or should I be able to call g_free for this.

mono_free(). g_free() is simply not available because there is
no glib in your case (64-bit VC build).

> I'm somewhat concerned because I can compile eglib for 64-bit, and I can
> compile (and link) libmono for 64-bit (and there are several calls to g_free
> in there), and I can link test-eglib with calls to g_free in there (I added
> one), but I can't link test-invoke, or my own code with calls to g_free in
> there.
>
> Anybody got any ideas as to what I'm missing?

While Mono is internally using g_free, this function is not
exposed via the embedded API. Use mono_free() instead. This
is the new way of disposing memory starting with the
the new (2.0) embedding API.

The embedding samples were not updated to reflect this
change.

Robert