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kerenor
Copper Contributor
Jan 29, 2024

Is there a way to allow loading dlls from a non-trivial path in MSIX?

Hi all, I'm trying to find a way to make programs inside MSIX load dlls from the environment variable PATH, or from any external-to-the-msix location that isn't C:\Windows\system32. In detail, I ...
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kerenor
Copper Contributor
Feb 04, 2024

TIMOTHY_MANGAN Thanks for your response!

The dlls are not contained within the package, they are in some arbitrary path outside (specifically C:\gstreamer\1.0\msvc_x86_64\bin.) I will probably be able to get the development teams to add that directory in development, but I'm also curious to learn more about the LoaderSearchorder extension.

In the documentation I couldn't find it - I found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/appxpackage/uapmanifestschema/element-uap6-loadersearchpathoverride and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/appxpackage/uapmanifestschema/element-uap6-loadersearchpathentry, and both of them are relative to the app package root path which is not what I need (unless I'd do something like "..\..\..\..\gstreamer\1.0\msvc_x86_64\bin" ... which seems like not the greatest practice). 

If you have reference to LoaderSearchorder that would be of great help

 

Thanks!