Costura not loading Native Dll

Question

I am unable to get Costura to load a Native dll that my project needs to run. This is a full native dll so it is not a reference in the project.

I have added the dll to the costura32 folder in my project and set it as an embedded resource.

When I run the project I can see that costura has extracted the dll to %temp%\costura\1D5629B8D94FC3E9B53C7AB358A0E123\32\native.dll

The project is still unable to find the file with the error Unable to load DLL

When looking in procmon I can see that it looks for the file in the local folder then in %temp%\costura\1D5629B8D94FC3E9B53C7AB358A0E123\native.dll and cannot find it. It doesn't seem to be looking for it in the "32" folder.

I have tried several options in the config file Unmanaged32Assemblies, PreloadOrder but they all have the same result.

I cannot see what I am doing wrong here.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '21 at 14:28

In my case I tried to access temp path for setting library path with below code and it worked.

   private bool SetupSevenZipLibrary()
    {
        string costuraExtractionPath = null;
        try
        {
           DirectoryInfo di = null;

            string costuraTempPath = Path.Combine(
                Path.GetTempPath(),
                "Costura" //ex: Costura
            );

            di = new DirectoryInfo(costuraTempPath);
            if (!di.Exists)
                return false;
            costuraExtractionPath = di.GetDirectories().First().FullName;
       
            if (!Directory.Exists(costuraExtractionPath))
                throw new Exception();

            string sevenZipPath = Path.Combine(
                costuraExtractionPath, 
                Environment.Is64BitProcess ? "64" : "32", "7z.dll"
            );
            if (!File.Exists(sevenZipPath))
                throw new Exception();

            SevenZipBase.SetLibraryPath(sevenZipPath);
            return true;
        }
        catch { return false; }
    }

Costura not loading Native Dll

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