Can I use a Windows DLL in a script written on a mac

Hi there,

Looking at the documentation on plugins here, it looks like I can import DLLs into my code and expose their public methods as with standard C#.

I've been approached for a project that would involve controlling the outputs an I/O board from within a Unity application, however the application is going to be developed on a mac. I have done this before for this exact board, but it was for a standard Windows .NET application so I know the DLL is good.

The I/O board comes with an SDK DLL (manual for this can be found at http://www.velleman.eu/downloads/0/user/usermanual_k8055_dll_uk.pdf).

I was just wandering if and how this will work, surely I can't load a Windows DLL onto a MAC? Or does Mono deal with this (I previously thought this was not possible with Mono outside of Windows)?

I can't test this myself as I don't yet have a Pro version of Unity (which I believe is required), and just want to confirm to the client that this is even possible before I go ahead and purchase.

I hope that makes sense, and thanks in advance!

 

Why not? That would be an horrible pain in the ass for plugin maker to have to compile them for different platform.

Sure, if the DLL pull on platform specific stuff, it will crash on Mac, like accessing System.Drawing. If it doesn't, it should work just fine.

 

It's a third party DLL for a PCB to control outputs so I doubt it's doing anything fancy OS-side except accessing a USB device.

Thanks

 

Huh-oh...

 

Is that "uh oh" as in problem or "Huh-oh" as in "oh is that all"?

 

Huh-oh as it might be a problem. Accessing hardware drivers surely fall into that "OS specific" things. Try it... but if it fails on the USB part, that wouldn't be a surprise.

 

Right. Hmmm. Thanks for your help!