aixiaofa/corehook.host

Library for hosting .NET Core in Linux, macOS, and Windows applications

CoreHook.Host

A library for hosting .NET Core with CoreHook in an unmanaged application on Windows.

Build status

Build server	Platform	Build status
AppVeyor	Windows

Binary Releases

You download the pre-built Windows binaries here or you can build the binaries from source.

Usage

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.

Building

Windows (x86, x64, ARM, ARM64)

Requirements

• Visual Studio

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.

CMake

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.

Tests

You can compile the .NET class Calculator.cs, which is required for the tests, with the command:

csc -target:library Calculator.cs

Credits

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.

References

• .NET Core Hosting Sample
• CoreCLR Hosts
• Hosting .NET Core
• Using corerun To Run .NET Core Application