How to write cross platfrom conditional compile work for system timer implementation?

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I am porting a project from ios/android, which use system timer for Socket IO operation.
I do some dirty work and try to make it just compile. I use macro to seperate code from wp8 and ios/android like following.

public class dummy : MonoBehaviour {
	#if NETFX_CORE   
	System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer timer = null;
	#else
	private System.Timers.Timer timer = null;	
	#endif
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
	
	}
}

The code look fine in editor and after you build the code, it show error:
Error building Player: Exception: Error: type System.Timers.Timer doesn’t exist in target framework. It is referenced from Assembly-CSharp.dll at dummy.

I should use NETFX_CORE or something else to make the project built?

2

NETFX_CORE trick works only for Windows Store Apps. It won’t work for Windows Phone 8 - you’ll have to implement it in a separate DLL, rather than in your script.

3

Well thats just sad. WP8 is much bigger platform, why was this not done there as the namespace exists for WP8 as well…

4

Use:

#if UNITY_WP8 && !UNITY_EDITOR

that should get you through the editor compile issue. It will compile your original version for editor and then will compile the new version for wp8 using the SDK.

5

No that will not work as you can’t target the NETFX_CORE namespaces on WP8… only Win8 thus making it basically pointless as you normally use the same code for both. But its fine as I have a working solution that modifies the C# project file and adds in the correct post build cs files.

6

Ahh, yeah that would be an issue unless you’re targeting 8.1 or building a universal app.