How do I include external DLLs / Plugins?

I've been trying to link an external plugin, WebRTC, from Microsoft in an empty project for some prototypes.

However, no matter what I do and where I place the DLL, I get this error:

> The type or namespace name 'MixedReality' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I've placed: the DLL in a folder called Plugins under Assets, set it to autoreference, typed

using Microsoft.MixedReality.WebRTC;

at the very top of the script, and used this one and only line

var test = new PeerConnection();

in the body.

Of course that will throw an error as PeerConnection can not be accessed by this way but Unity should throw that error once it reads the DLL.

But instead it doesnt even know the DLL exists. What am I doing wrong?

 

Oh no, understandable though. I guess I'll just configure my packages for regular DOTS to be 2d only and use the external libraries there.

Shame. Hopefully Tiny will mature in a couple years time with some sort of networking solution.

 

But what if we're authoring an in-house library specifically for a Tiny project(s)? Like some core rules/structures using only the most basic .NET APIs, that are compatible with the Tiny runtime. That's a common practice to separate high-level policies from the implementation details, which Unity/Tiny front-end is. I understand, that such use case may not be a priority while Tiny is in early development, but I really hope the support for managed plugins will be there once it's labeled as production ready.

 

You can still do this by creating a Unity package.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CustomPackages.html

It's just precompiled libraries that aren't supported.

 

So Tiny's build system will link DLLs from a package, but won't do the same from the project directory? That's weird...