[fpc-pascal] Load .NET dll (or bootstrap CLR to be precise) from FPC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

leledumbo wrote:
> I'm writing a web app hosting several tasks in FPC, however one of the task
> is calling a function residing in a .NET dll. I've made a flat C interface
> for the dll (so that I can call it from FPC easily), and it works just fine
> IF the dll is somehow loaded first. Currently, I use a trick to debug my web
> app from Visual Studio and makes the app calls the dll function. This
> automatically bootstraps the CLR and as long as there's no update on the dll
> my app would stay working. However, this is of course cumbersome. I wonder
> if there's any way to load the dll without such a dirty trick.

Nasty. Presumably the .dll wants to invoke entry points in the calling 
program: I don't know whether you can work around that and you might end 
up having to do something like http://www.mono-project.com/Embedding_Mono

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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