dotnet publish

[OpenSpacesAndPlaces]

Hi!

We've been using skiasharp dotnet core 2.0 and it's been working great localhost on Windows via VisualStudio.

However, when running a dotnet publish to a IIS 7.5 machine - it doesn't want to fire up:
The type initializer for 'SkiaSharp.SKManagedStream' threw an exception.Unable to load DLL 'libSkiaSharp': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)

I can see "SkiaSharp.dll" in the root of the publish directory.
I can see "libSkiaSharp.dll" in "\runtimes\win7-x64\native" and \runtimes\win7-x86\native"

I have 2017 x64 C++ redistributable installed on the target machine:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

I tried with and without a run-time specifier of "win-x64" - no difference.
Is there another file or path that should be included in the publish settings to make this work?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[OpenSpacesAndPlaces]

With a run-time specifier of "win7-x64", "libSkiaSharp.dll" copies correctly but that causes other problems.

This previous post seems to suggest the AnyCPU default should work?
#44

Right now I'm manually including the "win7-x64" copy of the "libSkiaSharp.dll", but given that the publish process has the needed files sitting in "\runtimes\win7-x64\native" and \runtimes\win7-x86\native" - shouldn't it be able to just pick one automatically or is there some way to can tell it just force copying the x64 version?

[mattleibow]

You have to use the VS2015 VCRT Redist:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

[OpenSpacesAndPlaces]

@mattleibow

You have to use the VS2015 VCRT Redist:

VS2015 must have already been installed then.

If it wasn't clear from my second post, the issue was that I have to set the build environment to "win7-x64" for the file to be copied, but if I leave as "AnyCPU" or even just generic win64 "win-x64", then "libSkiaSharp.dll" doesn't copy to the publish root from the runtimes folder.

My current fix was to just leave a static copy of "libSkiaSharp.dll" in the folder root.