Dynamic binding to the Mono runtime API

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 17:30:05 UTC, Jakub Szewczyk wrote:
> Mono runtime is a cross-platform, open-source alternative to 
> Microsoft's .NET framework [1], and it can be embedded in other 
> applications as a "scripting" VM, but with JIT-compilation 
> enhanced performance and support of many languages such as C#, 
> F# or IronPython [2].
> It provides a C API, so I've bound it to D as a Derelict-based 
> project, available at https://github.com/kubasz/derelict-mono, 
> and as a DUB package 
> (http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-mono). It currently 
> wraps the Mono 5.0 API.
> There's also a simple example of calling a C# main from D code, 
> and C# code calling a native function implemented in D.
>
> PS: Because I don't own a Mac I have no idea what the correct 
> paths to the Mono shared library are, so it'd be great if 
> someone could post/create a PR of them.
>
> [1] http://www.mono-project.com/
> [2] 
> http://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/embedding/scripting/


This is very cool - thank you for doing this.  It could prove 
very helpful.

Have you thought of/any interest in looking at automatically 
generating C# wrapper and bindings for D code?  (I'm interested 
myself mostly in nested templated structs/arrays rather than 
classes).  It may not be relevant for you, but if it is please 
drop me an email on laeeth

... at kaleidic.io

Thanks.


Laeeth.