NXPorts 1.1.0

NXPorts

A MSBuild-integrated library/tool to expose entrypoints in .NET assemblies to the platform invocation system or short PInvoke. It allows you to build .NET libraries that can be called from any development platform that supports PInvoke, including C++, C, Rust, Delphi, Python and so on...

Getting Started

To get started you only have to add the NXPorts package to your project. That's it. NXPorts will automatically generate exports as part of your build now. Some samples are available here.

Prerequisites

This software itself will run on any system that supports developing .NET software - it does not have any dependencies on ildasm.exe, ilasm.exe or any other windows-only libraries.

Keep in mind that Reverse PInvoke - calling PInvoke entrypoints in .NET assemblies - is only officially supported in the .NET Framework. It may work in other runtimes as well, but your mileage may vary.

See Compatibility Docs for more info.

Sample

The following code will result in an exported function named SampleExportFunc:

public static class Exports {
    [DllExport(alias:"SampleExportFunc")]
    public static double Add(double a, double b)
    {
        return a + b;
    }
}

The following code will result in an exported function named Sum:

public static class Exports {
    [DllExport]
    public static double Sum(double a, double b)
    {
        return a + b;
    }
}