Using C# and Unreal Engine for iOS Mobile Apps

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Using C# and Unreal Engine for iOS Mobile Apps Hi,

We have a complex application written in C#. We’d like to front this with Unreal to provide rendering and UI, but rewriting the underlying logic in C++ is a non-starter for commercial reasons.

**We’ve already got a windows C# DLL loading dynamically into Unreal, but we’re stuck on doing the same for iOS The data being passed are simple types and strings, so we can handle managed/unmanaged code interfaces and memory ourselves. **

So, there are really two questions here:- [ol]
[li]Is is possible to create the equivalent of a DLL for iOS from C# source and load them dynamically into Unreal Engine. If so:[LIST=1][/li][li]has anyone done this?[/li][li]is there an example of the C# project settings required?[/li][li]is there an example of the C++ code to load it into Unreal?[/li][/ol]
[li]If this is not possible, can we link statically from Unreal to C# sources, and how would we do this?[/li][/LIST]

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Static linking to DLLs (they’re dylibs in iOS and OSX) is the way you should approach it I think.

Is there a particular reason you need a dynamically loaded library if it’s your core product?

Then again since they’re called dylibs maybe they’re dynamic. Someone will know what’s up there.

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Thank you for the information.