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V8.NET (v8dotnet) mono

Hopefully someone has a little time to explain how to use V8.Net with Mono. I'm trying to use V8.Net with mono 3.10 on my ubuntu machine. So far I did the following:

  1. create an example project with the content on codeplex

      using System;
  using V8.Net;
  namespace testv8
 {
     class MainClass
     {
             public static void Main (string[] args)
             {


                var v8Engine = new V8Engine();
                Handle result = v8Engine.Execute("/* Some JavaScript Code Here*/","My V8.NET Console");
                Console.WriteLine(result.AsString); // (or "(string)result")
                Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue ...");
                Console.ReadKey(); 


                Console.WriteLine ("Hello World!");
        }
     }
  }

  2. add V8.Net.dll and V8.NetSharedTypes to the references

  3. I copied the content of the folder /Release/NET 4.0/x64 to /bin/Debug/x64 of my build directory

  4. When I try to run the example, I get the following error: A system.DllNotFoundException was thrown.

  5. I changed the Build type from Debug to ( Debug | Any cpu ). If I understood correct the library should now choose the correct dll.

6 When I rerun the program in this mode. The program stops at: Loaded assembly: /Build/v8dotnet/testv8/testv8/bin/test/x64/V8.Net.Proxy.Interface.x64.dll [External]

The call stack shows: V8.Net.V8NetProxy.CreatehandleProxyTest().

Hopefully you can give me some input to get it running.

Solution

  • Short note: there is some progress on making V8.Net available with Mono for different platforms (Win, Linux, and Mac). More info is available on the following sites:
    Mono Github Branch
    V8.Net Mono Issues

    Update: Mono is no longer supported. .Net Standard is now supported instead, which is cross-platform also.

    NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/V8.Net/

    CodePlex is now closed down. The new source is here: https://github.com/rjamesnw/v8dotnet