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Asked: 2026-06-08T09:13:12+00:00

I got this awesomely simple ini class that I downloaded from somewhere a while

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I got this awesomely simple ini class that I downloaded from somewhere a while ago, but now that I’m using mono I’m running into the issue that it’s importing stuff from kernel32

[DllImport("kernel32")]
private static extern long WritePrivateProfileString(string section,
    string key, string val, string filePath);
[DllImport("kernel32")]
private static extern int GetPrivateProfileString(string section,
            string key, string def, StringBuilder retVal,
    int size, string filePath);

Which on mono (in linux) gives the error DLLNotFoundException: kernel32

Is there any way to get this to work with mono? Maybe embed the whole thing into the assembly at compile time (if that even makes sense at all, I wouldn’t know). Or will I have to create/find an ini class that doesn’t use WinAPI? (Nini springs to mind).

I’d really like it if WinAPI stuff could work with Mono, any thoughts?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll need to rewrite the functionality of those functions in native .NET to use them on Mono/Linux (unless you can convince Mono and Wine to play nicely).

    If the INI files are controlled, then you may get away with simple file/string manipulation, but then you may be better off moving to something a bit more cross platform anyway.

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