A library for hosting .NET Core with CoreHook in an unmanaged application on Windows.
| Build server | Platform | Build status |
|---|---|---|
| AppVeyor | Windows |
You download the pre-built Windows binaries here or you can build the binaries from source.
For x86, x64, extract the zip corresponding to your target architecture, then place the coreload32.dll or coreload64.dll in the build output directory of your program.
For ARM, ARM64, extract the zip corresponding to your target architecture, then place the coreload32.dll or coreload64.dll in the output directory of your published program, created either from using the Publishing Script or the dotnet publish command.
- Visual Studio
Building the DLL requires Visual Studio and there are two options: You can build the DLL by using the Visual Studio IDE or using msbuild within the Developer Command Prompt (the solution file is for Visual Studio 2017, for other versions see the CMake section).
You can choose a configuration (Debug|Release) and a platform (X86|X64|ARM|ARM64) and build.
An example for building the X64 coreload64.dll in the Release configuration:
msbuild build/msvc/coreload/coreload-dll.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
To build the entire solution (which also builds the testing project), you can run:
nuget restore build/msvc/coreload.sln
msbuild build/msvc/coreload.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
The build output DLL will be inside the bin folder.
You can also build the library using CMake. You can run the build.cmd file to build for the x86 and x64 architectures using Visual Studio 2017. CMake also gives you the option to build with an older version of Visual Studio such as 2015 or 2013.
You can compile the .NET class Calculator.cs, which is required for the tests, with the command:
csc -target:library Calculator.cs
The coreload project is based on the core-setup host which supports parsing the .deps.json and runtimeconfig.json application configuration files. Most of the code for this library is borrowed from the corehost source.