XenoAtom.Interop 🚀

This XenoAtom.Interop project provides a set of C# libraries to interop with C/C++ libraries.

✨ Features

• API generated automatically from C/C++ headers providing a near 100% API coverage.
• Low-level interop with C/C++ libraries
  • The C/C++ API exposed is raw and will use pointers...etc.
  • Pure Function Pointers generated for callbacks, no managed delegates.
  • Similarly for ReadOnlySpan<byte> whenever possible.
• Modern interop using [LibraryImport] with P/Invoke source generation.
  • Some functions taking or returning strings try to offer a more user-friendly API by using string (but the raw function is still accessible!)
  • Fast UTF16 to UTF8 string marshalling with zero allocations (for small strings).
  • DllImportResolver support for each library to customize loading the native library.
• No native binaries are provided, only the P/Invoke bindings.
  • But some 3rd party NuGet packages might provide compatible native libraries. See the list of available compatible packages in each library below.
• Simple API XML documentation is provided for each library whenever possible (extracted from the C/C++ headers).
• NativeAOT Compatible.
• Supports net8.0+

📦 Libraries

The C/C++ header files from the Alpine Linux v3.21 were used to generated automatically the .NET P/Invoke bindings.

The following libraries are available:

Library	Native Version	Arch	NuGet
XenoAtom.Interop This package provides the shared types FixedArray#<T> to interop between .NET and C/C++.	-	all
XenoAtom.Interop.musl musl libc is an implementation of the C standard library providing access to the Linux kernel syscalls.	musl 1.2.5	linux-x64, linux-arm64
XenoAtom.Interop.libgit2 libgit2 is a pure C implementation of the git core methods.	libgit2 1.8.4	all
XenoAtom.Interop.sqlite SQLite is a small and fast SQL database engine.	sqlite 3.48.0	all
XenoAtom.Interop.zlib zlib compression library.	zlib 1.3.1	all
XenoAtom.Interop.vulkan Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API.	vulkan 1.3.296.0	all
XenoAtom.Interop.libdrm libdrm is a userspace library that provides a user-space API to the Direct Rendering Manager.	libdrm 2.4.123	linux
XenoAtom.Interop.libgbm libgbm is a userspace library that provides an abstraction for buffer management used by graphics drivers.	libgbm 24.2.8	linux
XenoAtom.Interop.libshaderc libshaderc is a library for compiling GLSL/HLSL to SPIR-V.	libshaderc 2024.0	all
XenoAtom.Interop.libkmod libkmod is a library for managing kernel modules.	libkmod 33	linux

• all: The library is available for all supported architectures.
• For musl library, it will work if musl is installed on the system. Typically on Alpine Linux you don't need to install anything. So the targets linux-musl-x64 and linux-musl-arm64 are supported by default.

📜 User Guide

Coming soon! 🤞

🪪 License

This software is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.

🤗 Author

Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx.