Can DLL be used in Linux?

dll file (dynamic link library) is written for the Windows environment, and wont run natively under Linux. You would probably have to extract it and recompile it as an. so – and unless it was originality compiled with Mono, it is unlikely to work.

How do I run a DLL file in Linux?

5 Answers. You could try extracting the ar file (Debian packages are ar files, fwiw) and run file on the contents. You’re not going to be able to use Windows DLLs without translation. The only DLL files that I know of that work natively on Linux are compiled with Mono.