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Libuv bindings for .NET

NLibuv

A cross-platform bindings to the libuv library for .NET.

The purpose of this library is to provide the libuv API on .NET platform, as simple as possible. It requires you to write your code as if you were using libuv directly. NLibuv takes care of platform invoke, marshaling, error handling and memory management, allowing you to consume libuv API as it is, safely on any platform supported by .NET.

Thread safety

This library is NOT thread safe. Like the original libuv library, it has only one thread safe method: UvAsync.Send (which represents libuv's uv_async_send function). If you're using NLibuv in multithreaded environment, you have to take care of synchronization by yourself, NLibuv will help you with this only by throwing an exception if you try to call non-thread-safe method from incorrect thread.

Warning! Work in progress!

This project currently is in the development stage. Use at your own risk.

Not all libuv API methods are implemented yet, and many of them will not be implemented in this package at all since .NET platform provides similar functionality (for example, Threading and synchronization utilities, Process handles, etc).

Please refer to the project's GitHub issues page for more information about the development progress.

Installation

All you need to do is simply install a NuGet package from the package manager console:

PM> Install-Package NLibuv

or through .NET CLI utility:

$ dotnet add package NLibuv