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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:13:50+00:00

The dllmap configuration file entry is used in Mono to map requests for windows

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The dllmap configuration file entry is used in Mono to map requests for windows DLLs to Linux (.so) libraries. But it seems that if Microsoft’s .NET framework tries to parse a configuration file with such an entry, an error occurs because it doesn’t understand “dllmap”. I think everything else in my distribution can be distributed unchanged on both Linux and Windows XP. Of all the portability involved in this, is this configuration entry really the downfall — the one non-portable piece? Isn’t there a way to share this file across platforms too?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you sure you need the “dllmap” entries? Can’t you just rely on automatic mapping “somelibrary” to “somelibrary.dll” on Windows and “somelibrary.so” on Linux?

    Besides, I though the framework just skip the entries it does not expect…

    EDIT: The standard way to ship linux libraries is to have an version-less symlink pointing to the latest version. So you would add libfmodex.so pointing to libfmodex-4.22.01.so. Then use [DllImport("fmodex")] and the framework will figure the rest automatically.

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