[Mono-dev] Cross Platform on Linux/Windows with Mono.Posix reference on Linux

[Greg Young]

<Reference Include="Mono.Posix" Condition=" '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT' " />

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Jason Curl <jcurlnews at arcor.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I reference Mono.Posix on Linux and still allow compilation on
> Windows without installation of Mono or extra Linux specific assemblies?
>
> I'm afraid of referencing via NuGet as I want the Mono runtime on the Linux
> installation to take preference over NuGet binaries on Linux. The Windows
> code path won't ever execute the code that's failing to compile, but I do
> not wish to use #define's as I need one binary that works cross-platform -
> in principle possible with Mono.
>
> Reflection is not suitable to convert compile-time to run-time due to the
> performance cost.
>
> My library needs to reference Mono.Posix under Linux to convert errno
> to/from system values and possibly other features in the future.
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