How to DllImport enums in c#

Question

I've compiled a dll in c++ with an enum that needs to be use in a c++ project and ac# project. With the c++ project there were no problems but in c# pops up that DllImport can only be used for methods

I've thought about functions to solve this problems but it's all a mess. I simply need to access c++ enums from c#

this is the c++ enum inside the dll:

enum DLL_PUBLIC ByteCode
{
    // Stuffs...
};

and this is how i tried to import it in c#:

[DllImport("ByteCodes.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
enum ByteCodes;

Here i got that DllImport can only be used for methods but i need it for enums. What can i do?

Answer 1

You can re-declare the members of the enum as simple const int values in the C# side. Or you can simply redeclare the enum, making sure to define the members with = 1 , etc. to match the C++ declaration.