Managing DLL dependencies in a Unity project

Hi all,

The reason to open this thread is to ask the community what are you using to solve dll dependencies in Unity project. Anyone has experience using Kaizen, Gradle or Maven to solve dll dependencies inside a Unity project?

TL;DR;

Im doing some research in how to set up a Unity project to play well in a large team, including continuous integration pipeline. In order to find all the pitfalls I created a test project that tick all the boxes that I want to cover. One of them is isolate bits of the code as managed mono DLLs to avoid having a lot of library code copy pasted inside the Unity project, an be able to separate properly the Unity stuff from business logic code.

The issue

I create a dll that contain StrageIoC code (I want to have dependency injection and MVC architecture in my project). The dll generation happens in a separate mono solution outside Unity and then I copy the generated file inside the project. So far so good. My issue now is how to manage dll version dependencies. For the ones not familiar with this concept, this is the scenario that I want to solve:

• I have strangeIoC.dll version 1.0 in the Unity project
• StrangeIoC has an update
• I update the StrangeIoC modo project and generate a new dll
• The dll is upload to my artefact server (Nexus, Artifactory, whatever)
• I want to have a method on the Unity project to check if a new version of the dll is available and update (download and copy to the right place) the new dll.

I'm used to do that using Maven. I saw that Unity has a open source project called Kaizen that use Gradle to handle this problem, but I'm unable to find any article or forum thread talking about it.

Thanks in advance!

 

Hi UCh,

I am very interested in this approach. Do you have already have some more to share?

 

I didn't work on it to much but I found a maven plugin on github (but I didn't try it yet):

https://github.com/mestevens/unity-maven-plugin

TBH there is no much literature around this subject.

 

Thanks!

 

I re-started my research and I find a promising repo from the Wonga folks: http://wooga.github.io/Paket.Unity3D/index.html

I'm thinking in a combination of this and Cake or Fake. Looking at Wonga repos looks like they are already using Fake with Unity.