Is it possible to redistibute a .net app compiled with vs to linux without
recompiling with say mon compiler?

And what if I import functions from external non-.net dlls like

[dllimport("fmod.dll")]
public static extern fmod_playsound(string file, int flags);

the library fmod itself is platform independent but there are certainly
different versions of the library for each plaform having different file
name and different internal image format, so how can such an issue be
solved?

Is it possible to call methods from an external dll without using the
dllimport attribute, something like GetProcAddress in the old days?

Yes it is possible to do copy ony deployments to a mono system providing all
of the bits you are using exist there.

dllimports to external code do however break this (obviously if the library
does not exist on the other platform). For this you generally end up with
coditional code "if windows, if mono etc". If you are using a platform
independent library you can also use DLLMap to handle this for you
http://www.mono-project.com/DllMap

Cheers,

Greg
"cody" <deutronium (AT) gmx (DOT) de> wrote

Instead of using DLLImport attribute, Load the libraries at runtime by
the platform provided APIs to load the dynamic link libraries. So you
have all library information provided at runtime like path and name...
And wrap those apis in your class that can behave based on two or more
operating system platforms. (Also you can use different
api-loader-class which one is specific to the platform and they all
implement same interface. you can load specific class through
reflection as well).
I have no experience with DLLMap, but it might be a good idea to go on
with it..

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hB