[Mono-dev] mono-Interop with Native Libraries

[Rafael Teixeira]

You can always try to "massage" (kind of parse) the struct as the default
marshalling will pass to your native function, if you don't direct the
process with attributes.

It comes with all types of risks, and is complex, so I *strongly recommend
that you don't go that way*.

The highest risk is that without the [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
the compiler is free to rearrange the order of the fields to make things as
compact as possible but obeying to the alignment requirements of
the architecture, so things vary wildly along time and across
architectures/OSes.

Hope it helps,

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:58 AM, marcus julius <marcusjls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just started reading about Interop with Native Libraries in C# and
Mono, so before I started doing something I want to ask more experienced
people as a last resort.
>
> I wanna send a managed class (which extends another class, has another
class as a field and some methods) to unmanaged C++ side.
>
> The question is, is there a way to do this without preparing the class for
marshaling using something like these?
>
> [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
> [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
> etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
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