The current documentation does not tell whether instantiating objects and calling member functions is impossible or just out of scope for this tutorial. I searched a lot online and found no more information on that.

This is something which is possible to do with Mono (using mono_object_new and mono_runtime_invoke according to https://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/embedding/).

Is this something that is not currently possible with .NET core ? Do you think this will be possible in the future, and when approximately would you expect it to be implemented ?

This feature is appealing because embedding C# is the best option I found to call C# from C++ in a cross-platform way:

• COM and /clr are Windows only
• reverse P-Invoke seems convoluted
• .NET DllExport does support .NET core but it is not an official dotnet component (problematic for long term maintenance) and it is not obvious that it is usable/used on Linux
• (edited 2020-06-09) CoreRT could also be a candidate but it is not clear it will be maintained in the long term, nor if it actually can build native DLLs ?

Thanks in advance.

[Edited by gewarren to add document details]

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