Re: [Swig-user] WinRT and C# P/Invoke

[David P. <Dav...@tr...>]

I would like to report that I did a mini-fork of SWIG a long time ago to 
use IntPtr instead of HandleRef (for .NET Compact Framework support), and 
my IntPtr-based wrappers have always worked fine on desktop Windows, even 
though there is supposedly a risk of premature garbage collection (in fact 
my version still uses HandleRef by default, but switches to IntPtr in case 
USE_INTPTR or COMPACT_FRAMEWORK_COMPATIBLE is defined.)

Where is it documented that HandleRef is disappearing? It is not 
deprecated as of .NET 4.5.



From:   Build Master <akb...@gm...>
To:     swi...@li...
Date:   04/17/2013 02:30 PM
Subject:        [Swig-user] WinRT and C# P/Invoke



Hello SWIG,

We've been successfully generating C# bindings to our C API for various 
.NET/Mono platforms.
However, the recent WinRT platforms introduced changes in .NET core so 
that many constructs are 
no longer supported, e.g., HandleRef  which is at the core if SWIG .NET 
P/Invoke support.

We wonder if this part of language extension code can be adapted to 
support WinRT.
For example, replace HandleRef with SafeHandle.

I don't consider myself a .NET expert so please feel free correct me if 
I'm wrong.

Thanks!
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