Is there a way to package a binary as a global tool

Steps to reproduce

I have native binaries (one for each platform) that I want to package as global CLI tools to make it available in my dotnet projects. I would prefer to not rewrite it in C#. I know that there are non .net projects in nuget like https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka but can’t find any info/example of a native dotnet tool. Is this possible?

I also raised this question in SO

Expected behavior

Packaging a set of native binaries with metadata (entry point, supported platforms) in a .nupkg will be installable with dotnet tool install -g. It would choose the appropriate binaries based on the platform and ~/.dotnet/tools.

Actual behavior

Can’t find a way to do this in the documentation.

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   2.1.300
 Commit:    adab45bf0c

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  6.3.9600
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win81-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.300\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 2.1.0
  Commit:  caa7b7e2ba

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  1.0.0-preview4-004233 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  1.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  2.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  2.1.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  2.1.201 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  2.1.300 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.0.5 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.1.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

[wli3]

it would be more of a product discussion. Tool’s benefit today is the producer would only need to consider their .NET project since we can make the assumption of .NET SDK and runtime being available on the both side(transfer IL). However, there are many solutions today available to distribute binary like Windows store and homebrew. And also because of the inherent complexity of delivery machine specific binary, I don’t think .NET SDK will bring much to the table.

[zkat]

what would it take to make this possible?