Linking Manifold lib to Microsoft Visual Studio C#

[edumarzolla]

Could someone please explain how to link Manifold in a Winform application developed in C#?
Thanks,

Example of a desired C# function:

        private void button1_Click(global::System.Object sender, global::System.EventArgs e)
        {
            //Create a simple cylinder1
            long cylinder1 = cylinder(10f, 5f, 5f, 360, true);

            //Create a simple cylinder2
            long cylinder2 = cylinder(20f, 1f, 1f, 360, true);

            //Subtract cylinder2 from cylinder1
            long result = boolean_subtract(cylinder1, cylinder2);

            //Export mesh
            int i = ExportMeshFile(result, @"C:\Temp\result.glb");

        }

[elalish]

@goswinr Did you get this working? Perhaps we should add some documentation on this, especially since none us core contributors are Windows/C# users.

[goswinr]

@elalish no success yet. I think it is just a matter of compiling with the Visual C++ compiler. Would be amazing to have windows bindings. I am in the construction industry. Everyone is using windows and most building modeling tools (like Revit or Rhino) are automated via .NET

[pca006132]

If you follow the steps in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11425202/is-it-possible-to-call-a-c-function-from-c-net, do you have any issue? If yes, show us the error messages?

[weianweigan]

@edumarzolla I released a nuget package may be helpful.

using ManifoldNET;

var cylinder1 = Manifold.Cylinder(10f, 5f, 5f, 360, true);
var cylinder2 = Manifold.Cylinder(20f, 1f, 1f, 360, true);

var result = Manifold.BooleanOperation(cylinder1, cylinder2, BoolOperationType.Subtract);
result.MeshGL.ExportMeshGL("result.glb");

I tested it in notebook and it works.