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Help! How can I access a C++ library from c#?

Luq
I am confused....
My plan is to write a program for some scientific computing in c#,
because I heard that c# codes are much better and easier to write and
manage. But the problem is that I have to use some c++ library, for
example the GSL (GNU Scientific library) for some numerical functions
and the library for HDF5 data format. They are xxxx.a files under
Linux. So how can I access these libraries from the c# programs? Is
that possible on earth?
Thx a lot!

Simon

Aug 17 '07 #1
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Compile the C code to DLL and use [DllImport("file.Dll")]

A quick googling shows http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/08/CQA/

-James

Aug 17 '07 #2

"Luq" <lu****@googlemail.comwrote in message
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>I am confused....
My plan is to write a program for some scientific computing in c#,
because I heard that c# codes are much better and easier to write and
manage. But the problem is that I have to use some c++ library, for
example the GSL (GNU Scientific library) for some numerical functions
and the library for HDF5 data format. They are xxxx.a files under
Linux. So how can I access these libraries from the c# programs? Is
that possible on earth?
The GSL is a pure "C" library, not C++, so you have the option of using
DllImport.

However, when you start calling external DLLs, much of the safety that C#
offers is gone. Also the speed using C# will be much worse (pure C# is
quite fast, but calls from C# to C functions are not).
Aug 17 '07 #3
Luq wrote:
I am confused....
My plan is to write a program for some scientific computing in c#,
because I heard that c# codes are much better and easier to write and
manage. But the problem is that I have to use some c++ library, for
example the GSL (GNU Scientific library) for some numerical functions
and the library for HDF5 data format. They are xxxx.a files under
Linux. So how can I access these libraries from the c# programs? Is
that possible on earth?
Thx a lot!

Simon
If you are programming for Windows only you have the option of using
C++/CLI to wrap the library with managed objects and use them from C#
directly. Otherwise you have only the option to use PInvoke (DllImport),
since I don't think porting the library isn't a (very good) option ;-).

Andre
Aug 18 '07 #4

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