.NET Library for Native Apps

dotnet AOT support is now out, this project will be archived as it is now officially suported

Steps from scratch

• Create a new project

  dotnet new classlib -o DotNetLib

• add NativeAOT support by creating a nuget config

  cd DotNetLib
  dotnet new nugetconfig

• Add the following to the nuget.config file:

  <add key="dotnet-experimental" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/  _packaging/dotnet-experimental/nuget/v3/index.json" />

• add a reference to the compiler

  dotnet add package Microsoft.DotNet.ILCompiler -v 7.0.0-*

• then you can publish the dll like this

  dotnet publish /p:NativeLib=Shared /p:SelfContained=true -r <RID> -c <Configuration>

Cpp steps

• make and build the native executable

  meson builddir
  meson compile -C builddir

• put the library in the executable generated by meson (buiddir/cpp)
• run it

  ./builddir/bin/<executable>