[PAID BOUNTY] [LOCKED] Switch the console runtime from BRUTE to NativeAOT about monogame HOT 4 OPEN

Following the foundation meeting of March 14, the applications have been reviewed and this bounty has been locked for @tomspilman to complete.

from monogame.

DllImport works just fine with NativeAOT. Maybe some other ahead-of-time environments don't, but we already shipped games using DllImport and NativeAOT so we should be all fine.

(NativeAOT has modes which are stricter and might require that, but it is not required to go as far as that on consoles with MonoGame.)

from monogame.

Hello. Just a little nitpick. I think that the new LibraryImport is probably more appropriate than the DllImport, since NativeAOT is the target.

Using DllImport isn't an option for platforms that require full Native AOT scenarios and therefore using other approaches (for example, source generation) is more appropriate.
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The P/Invoke source generator, included with the .NET 7 SDK and enabled by default, looks for LibraryImportAttribute on a static and partial method to trigger compile-time source generation of marshalling code, removing the need for the generation of an IL stub at run time and allowing the P/Invoke to be inlined.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-interop/pinvoke-source-generation

from monogame.

You're right. DllImport doesn't work only in full NativeAOT.

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