Linking to a C++ native library in MonoTouch

Question

I am reading up about linking native libraries into MonoTouch, specifically this documentation:

http://monotouch.net/Documentation/Linking_Native_Libraries

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Answer 1

You can certainly use a C++ api, but you will need to either wrap it in a C api, or a ObjC+btouch api to be able to talk to this. Invoking C api's uses PInvoke, and C++ libraries use symbol mangling. While theoretically you could pinvoke to the mangled symbol, this isn't a good idea as the mangling is compiler specific.