SharpHook doesn't work on Mac Catalyst

[TolikPylypchuk]

As @karthitect said in discussion #22, SharpHook doesn't work in a MAUI app on macOS as it uses Mac Catalyst - it fails with DllNotFoundException when trying to access libuiohook. I'm not sure it's going to work at all, but this needs to be investigated - maybe the libuiohook build can be updated to work on Mac Catalyst.

[TolikPylypchuk]

SharpHook cannot work on Mac Catalyst until libuiohook can be built for it. I've tried configuring it but didn't manage to do that. I've created an issue in the original libuiohook repo to add a Mac Catalyst build.

[TolikPylypchuk]

Finally, I've managed to add support for Mac Catalyst in SharpHook, although it was really painful. It will be available in version 5.0.0.

[LocutusOfPenguin]

Hi,

i would need support for Drag&Drop for Mac / Maui very urgently.

When can we expect this 5.0 to be released?
If it takes longer, perhaps you can create a branch for it...i can even help in some way (maybe).

Thanks.

[TolikPylypchuk]

Hi! Thanks for your interest!

There are still a couple things I need to do before releasing 5.0 - it's a much larger release than I've initially anticipated. I think I'll be done in a couple weeks.

If you can't or don't want to wait for the release, you can use the nupkg files that are built in GitHub actions - they are built for every commit to the master branch (check out the sharphook-build artifact). They are mostly stable (but there could still be some breaking changes) and I think they can be used in development - but not in production, obviously. Also, they all have version 5.0.0 which may be inconvenient.

[JohnKesko]

@TolikPylypchuk Thank you for providing MacCatalyst support.. wish I looked into this thread a bit earlier instead of wasting a couple of hours trying to figure out what was wrong lol.

Anyway, just fyi - installed version 5.0.0 and it works great!

[TolikPylypchuk]

Yeah, happens to the best of us :)

That's great to hear that Mac Catalyst support works well! Version 5.0.0 is basically done - I just want to write the docs and test it on various platform configurations - so I think it's going to be a matter of days.

[TolikPylypchuk]

I've just released version 5.0.0 so this issue can finally be closed.