[Mono-dev] Mixed Mode Assemblies

[Daniel Morgan]

Well, since Rodrigo said something crazy - like implementing an PE loader on Linux.  
What about the opposite (and even more crazy) - modify Mono/Mcs to create an ELF executable or library.  Of  course, you would have to modify Mono to load the ELF executable or library too.


For me to use C++ in my legacy apps, I had to create a library to wrap the C++ functionality, but export my functions as extern "C" so I could platform invoke them from C#.



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From: Alex Corrado <alexander.corrado at gmail.com>
To: Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Mixed Mode Assemblies

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor at vt.edu> wrote:
>> But try using dlopen(3) on Linux to load an assembly, and dlopen(3) will
>> (rightfully) fail -- Linux wants ELF, not PE. There's a rather fundamental
>> file format difference here.
>>
>
> Well, the fix here is quite straight forward - just implement a PE/COFF
> loader for non windows platforms.

Already been done: winehq.org. IMHO not the most elegant of solutions,
though I am a bit biased toward the mono C++ interop (Cxxi) that
Jonathan mentioned :)
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