[Mono-dev] Accessing a mono .dll on OSX from Excel VBA

Elmar Haneke elmar at haneke.de
Tue May 23 07:56:16 UTC 2017



Am 23.05.2017 um 05:22 schrieb Bernard Vukas:
> I'm looking for best practices or recommendations about using Excel
> VBA to consume exported functions from a mono .dll on OSX.
>
> My understanding is that OSX recognizes .dylib libraries, and that
> .dll's are Windows specific. Am I missing something, or is this
> impossible?

.dylib are OSX native libraries. ".dll" files are either Windows native
libraries or CIL assemblies (for DotNet or Mono).

Using C-Compiler you can make an .dylib which exports functions for
Excel calling Mono functions by embedding mono.

Elmar



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