MemoryModule.NET

Package	Version
Cross platform
Windows
Linux	Coming soon
MacOS	Coming soon

Loads unmanaged libraries right from your embedded resources! Works on Windows and Linux only, both on .NET Framework and .NET Core (and of course .NET 5.0)

Features:

• Load x86 and x64 assemblies, right from the memory. No P/Invoke, no temporary files.
• Correctly resolves loaded unmanaged libraries, and exposes a AssemblyResolve event for users to manually handle it.
• Linux x86 (32 and 64 bit) support, through interoperation with glibc.

Sample code:

using MemoryModule;

        [UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
        delegate int addNumberProc(int a, int b);

            var asmBytes = File.ReadAllBytes($"SampleDLL.dll");

            var asm = NativeAssembly.Load(asmBytes);

            Console.WriteLine("Successfully loaded library.");
            var addNumberFunc = asm.GetDelegate<addNumberProc>("addNumbers");
            var rand = new Random();
            int num1 = rand.Next(0, 20);
            int num2 = rand.Next(0, 20);
            Console.WriteLine($"{num1}+{num2}={addNumberFunc(num1, num2)}");

            var greetFunc = asm.GetDelegate<GreetProc>("Greet");
            greetFunc();

            asm.Dispose();

See the DemoApp for more details.

Packages

• MemoryModule: Cross platform package, with support for x86 and x86_64, Windows and Linux.
• MemoryModule.Compact.Windows: Compact module for small, standalone Windows applications.

Known issues

• Windows: Beware of 64-bit dll files compiled using g++: fancycode/MemoryModule#108. These files must be compiled using -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++ to load properly, in both the original C version and this version.
• Windows: Resources are not supported.
• Linux: Support is limited. While basic C/C++ libraries, such as libcurl, can be properly loaded, MemoryModule.NET may not work with other advanced libraries that contain unknown ELF relocations. If that's the case, please open an issue.
• Linux: As MemoryModule.NET relies on certain glibc data structures, it may fail on systems that use beta/custom glibc version. Please open an issue for support.