Coral is a C++ wrapper around the .NET CoreCLR library, the purpose of Coral is to provide an interface similar to Mono when it comes to C++/C# interop, but in a more modern style, and using .NET Core instead of .NET Framework.
The goal of the API is to keep it as simple and flexible as possible, while remaning fast and safe.
Currently the API is basically non-existent, but as I keep developing it I'll update the list below.
Coral uses the premake meta-build system in order to generate build files for other build systems (e.g Visual Studio Soltuions, Makefiles, etc...)
You'll need to download premake from https://premake.github.io/, after that open up a terminal and cd into the root directory of Coral, then run this command:
premake5 [action]
where action is one of the supported actions in premake: https://premake.github.io/docs/Using-Premake#using-premake-to-generate-project-files
For Windows I recommend building Coral with Visual Studio 2022, using either MSVC or clang-cl.
For Linux I recommend using premakes gmake2 generator to generate Makefiles, and then just running make in the root folder of Corals project.
These are the compilers that I've tested Coral with:
- MSVC. Specifically the version that ships with version 17.5.3 of Visual Studio
- Clang
GCC currently isn't officially supported, but I'll make sure Coral compiles with GCC in the near future.
Running the Testing project is realtively easy, you just have to make sure to copy the Coral.Managed.runtimeconfig.json file from the Coral.Managed folder to the build folder, e.g Build/Debug/Coral.Managed.runtimeconfig.json