Mono/Linux requires dll.config file for c# module

[tbonfort]

Reporter: scottellington@comcast.net Date: 2006/01/04 - 22:55

To run the C# module on Mono/Linux, a dll.config file is needed.  This simply
maps the library file the DllImport is looking for to its unix equivalent.  It
would be  helpful to include this in the MapServer distribution.

Note: this file will be benign on Windows.

[tbonfort]

Author: sdlime Date: 2006/01/04 - 23:59

Would this just live in the mapscript/csharp directory? If not, then where? Or 
is this a file generated by Swig? (forgive me, not a C# guy at all)

Steve

[tbonfort]

Author: scottellington@comcast.net Date: 2006/01/05 - 00:13

Yes.  In the csharp directory.

It basically should go wherever the created dll is, so in the same directory as
mapscript_csharp.dll would be mapscript_csharp.dll.config.  

I manually created it, and it will be consumed by Mono.  It is simply a way of
mapping windows dll library names to unix names.  There is information here if
you are curious:

http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries

Scott

[tbonfort]

Author: szekerest Date: 2006/03/16 - 01:15

Assigned

[tbonfort]

Author: szekerest Date: 2006/03/19 - 01:24

Comitted to the CVS HEAD. Thank you for sparing no effort to workaround theese
problems.

Tamas

[tbonfort]

Author: szekerest Date: 2006/03/19 - 18:15

Backported to Branch-4-8

[tbonfort]

Author: szekerest Date: 2006/08/05 - 20:35

The default mapping for MONO on Linux maps to libmapscript.so therefore the
dll.config file is not really needed. However I have placed the sample into the
mapscript/csharp/config. Must not use this file on MONO/Windows.
This issue was commented in chapter 3.4 of
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapscriptcscompile