mono/CppSharp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CppSharp is a tool and library set that parses C/C++ headers and libraries and generates glue code to expose native APIs as managed .NET APIs (C# and C++/CLI). It can also be used standalone as a C# library for parsing native code into a rich Clang-based syntax tree.

Use cases

• generate C# bindings for a C/C++ library
• consume a native C++ library from .NET code
• parse C/C++ headers into a syntax tree in C#
• add managed scripting support to a native codebase
• create P/Invoke wrappers automatically
• override C++ virtual methods from managed code

When to choose

• you need automated C/C++ to .NET bindings instead of hand-writing P/Invoke
• you want a Clang-accurate C/C++ parser accessible from C#
• you need multi-platform, multi-ABI binding generation (Itanium, MS, ARM, iOS)
• you want Doxygen comments translated to C# XML docs in bindings

When to avoid

• you target languages other than C# or C++/CLI (consider SWIG or language-specific tools)
• you only need simple flat C interop that plain P/Invoke handles easily
• your project is not on the .NET ecosystem

Facets

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parser compiler sdk developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages parsers cross-platform dotnet c cpp windows cross-platform bindings-generator interop pinvoke clang c-sharp syntax-tree native-interop code-generation macos linux

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