Question: How do I include native assemblies as a NuGet runtime with .NET Core projects?

[pauldotknopf]

For example, runtime/debian and runtime/win-64, etc.

Similar to how the libuv packages are delivered through NuGet here.

[dasMulli]

The pack targets look for metadata on a few known item types, I've been able to include msbuild files using the following inside an <ItemGroup>:

<None Update="build\**\*" Pack="true" PackagePath="\build" />

So I suppose you could do something like:

<None Update="runtime\**\*" Pack="true" PackagePath="\runtime" />

which will pack all

[pauldotknopf]

Great.

I got it working.

    <Content Include="../../native/medxdcmtk/lib/libmedxdcmtk.so">
      <PackagePath>runtimes/debian-x64/native/libmedxdcmtk.so</PackagePath>
      <Pack>true</Pack>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="../../native/dcmtk/lib/libdcmtk.so.10">
      <PackagePath>runtimes/debian-x64/native/libdcmtk.so.10</PackagePath>
      <Pack>true</Pack>
    </Content>

However, when I run this, I can't pinvoke. I get "System.DllNotFoundException : Unable to load DLL 'libmedxdcmtk': The specified module could not be found.".

If I copy the two libs directly into /usr/lib, it works, so I know it isn't an issue with the binaries. It is an issue with the dotnet runtime not loading the native packages correctly.

I am using dotnet cli "1.0.0-rc4-004771".

[rainersigwald]

A straightforward solution for this moving forward should come with #5037.