[Mono-list] Need advice about Mono C# + MinGW Fortran

[Robert Jordan]

On 04.03.2018 02:04, Robert Dodier wrote:
> $ wine gfortran.exe -c fun1.f
> $ wine gfortran -shared -o fun1.dll fun1.o -Wl,--out-implib,libfun1_dll.a
> $ mcs HelloWorld.cs -r:fun1.dll
> error CS0009: Metadata file
> `/home/robert/.wine/drive_c/MinGW/bin/fun1.dll' does not contain valid
> metadata
> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings

You cannot consume native DLLs like they were .NET assemblies.
Neither with MS.NET nor with Mono, neither under Windows, nor
under Linux.

You may want to look at what "p/invoke" is, and how to leverage it.

But even with p/invoke you won't be able to consume a native Windows
DLL with Mono under Linux, unless you're resorting to Wine & Mono for 
Wine (which is just Mono for Windows, IIRC).

Robert