Building as a shared library

[Binozo]

Hey guys,

as I currently need a library like YoutubeExplode for my personal project but in Go. I researched a little and thought about building this library as a shared library and then using it through bindings with other languages.

I think this library would fit the best for that purpose because it just works™️ and it is especially good maintained.

Building it using

$ dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -c Release /p:NativeLib=Shared

created a shared library with the size of about 1.5 MiB which is acceptable in my opinion.
If there is any interest or support for this idea I will happily send the PRs 😄

Also needed some minor patches before publishing:

Index: YoutubeExplode/YoutubeExplode.csproj
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
diff --git a/YoutubeExplode/YoutubeExplode.csproj b/YoutubeExplode/YoutubeExplode.csproj
--- a/YoutubeExplode/YoutubeExplode.csproj	(revision e1251e9421a44358fc8f92dac877d4b0cd6e393b)
+++ b/YoutubeExplode/YoutubeExplode.csproj	(date 1751662822506)
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;net9.0</TargetFrameworks>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
+    <PublishAot
+      Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsTargetFrameworkCompatible('$(TargetFramework)', 'net9.0'))"
+      >true</PublishAot
+    >
     <IsTrimmable
       Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsTargetFrameworkCompatible('$(TargetFramework)', 'net6.0'))"
       >true</IsTrimmable

Index: YoutubeExplode/MyNativeLibrary.cs
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
diff --git a/YoutubeExplode/MyNativeLibrary.cs b/YoutubeExplode/MyNativeLibrary.cs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null	(date 1751662031878)
+++ b/YoutubeExplode/MyNativeLibrary.cs	(date 1751662031878)
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+namespace YoutubeExplode;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// awdawda
+/// </summary>
+public static class MyNativeLibrary
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// awdawdwd
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="a"></param>
+    /// <param name="b"></param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    [UnmanagedCallersOnly(EntryPoint = "add")]
+    public static int Add(int a, int b) => a + b;
+}

[Tyrrrz]

Hi. Don't think I want to include this in the core repository, but you're welcome to make a Go wrapper of this library in a separate repo. You can include this repo as a git submodule if it makes it easier to stay up to date that way.

[Binozo]

Also thought the same but the thing would be that this library would need to expose some C APIs like I did in the second patch. Otherwise I would need to fork this library, add the exported methods and then create the Go wrapper repo with the submodule.

My idea was to add a class like ExportedMethods or similar that just exports all available APIs for downloading videos etc. and then create another repository where the Go wrapper will be