SharpGenTools 
Code-gen tools forked from SharpDX and independently mantained.
Features
- Accurate, fast code-gen for C++ and COM interfaces from their C++ headers.
- No dependencies on .NET Runtime COM support
- Supports passing code-gen information through MSBuild project and package references
- Pluggable Runtime Library Name (default library is SharpGen.Runtime)
- Projects such as SharpDX could change to "SharpDX" to not break compatibility
Components
- SharpGen
- The code-gen engine that runs CastXML to parse the C++ and then generates the C#.
- SharpPatch
- Patches the
calliinstructions for efficient COM interop as well as other constructs not possible in C#
- Patches the
- SharpGenTools.Sdk
- MSBuild tooling to integrate SharpGen and SharpPatch directly into projects
- SharpGen.Interactive
- Legacy command line front-end for SharpGen with Windows Forms progress dialog
- The original SharpGen application
- SharpPatch.Cli
- Legacy command line front-end for SharpPatch
- The original SharpCli application
Requirements
To Use
- Any projects using the SDK to generate code must use new SDK-style projects with MSBuild 15.3 or higher (.NET Core 2.0 SDK or VS 2017.3)
- Make any mapping files a
SharpGenMappingitem in your.csproj.
To Build
- MSBuild 15.3
- Visual C++ Tools (Toolset v140 or newer)
- Windows 10.0.15063 SDK (Creators Update)
- .NET Core 2.0
- Desktop .NET Workload (for SharpGen.Interactive)
