Uno.Native

Uno.Native is a .NET library for importing and conditioning of real-time assets such as 3D textures and fonts. It is implemented on top of native libraries that are wrapped in a cross-compiled C interface which is called from C# using dynamic P/Invoke.

We use this library for implementing import backends in the Uno compiler, and for loading raw assets in Uno runtime code for .NET.

Prerequisites

• CMake
• Mono/.NET
• Platform specific libraries (see below)

Installing using APT (Linux)

sudo apt-get install -y libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libpng12-dev

Building

Run build.bat (or .sh). Remember to init submodules in git first.

Debugging in Visual Studio

When the native code is built using build.bat, you can open Uno.Native.sln in Visual Studio, enable Native Code Debugging in your startup project, and step down in to the C/C++ layer through the C# wrapper.