MSBuild tooling for SharpGen. Tooling for generating efficient C# code from C++ and COM headers.


Keywords
c-sharp, cpp, interoperability, sharpdx
License
MIT
Install
Install-Package SharpGenTools.Sdk -Version 1.0.0-rc1

Documentation

SharpGenTools

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Accurate and high performance C++ interop code generator for C#.

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 and runtime support type names (default library is SharpGen.Runtime)
    • Projects that implement their own SharpGenTools runtime support classes can add mapping rules to ensure that their generated code uses their runtime support library.

Components in this Repo

  • SharpGen
    • The code-gen engine that runs CastXML to parse the C++ and then generates the C# interop code.
    • API for SharpGen SDK plugins, e.g. documentation providers.
  • SharpGenTools.Sdk
    • MSBuild tooling to integrate SharpGen directly into projects.
    • Build-time code generation plugin platform.
  • SharpGen.Runtime
    • Runtime support classes for code generated by SharpGen.
  • SharpGen.Runtime.COM
    • Mapped classes for the core interfaces in the COM and Windows Runtime.

Requirements

To Use

  • SDK-style (CPS) MSBuild projects
  • .NET environment, at least one of the following:
    • .NET SDK (7 or newer)
    • .NET Core SDK (3.1 or newer)
    • Visual Studio 2019 with desktop .NET workload, .NET Framework 4.7.2 SDK or newer
  • Make any mapping files a SharpGenMapping item in your .csproj.

To Build

  • .NET SDK: 7.0 or newer.
  • CMake: 3.0 or newer.
  • SDK tests require x64 Windows, VS2022 with x86 and x64 C++ compilers, recent PowerShell version.