Copy runtime libraries from references project

I have Library.csproj with following code:

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="runtimes\win7-x86\native\**\*">
      <PackagePath>.</PackagePath>
      <Pack>true</Pack>
    </Content>
</ItemGroup>

When I run dotnet pack, I can see native dll-s in the generated package. If I reference this NuGet package (using my own feed) in the another project then all libraries are correctly placed into bin folder. But if I reference this project directly then libraries are not copied.

We need to have one uniform way to add native libraries into project and use them in all scenarios:

• Directly in this project
• In other project that references this project
• In the generated NuGet package

[asmichi]

I have made an extreme hack to add runtime libraries into deps.json: https://github.com/asmichi/DotNetInjectNativeFileDepsHack WARNING: This will likely break in a future version of the .NET SDK.

The problem is that runtime libraries from reference projects do not appear in deps.json and thus cannot be loaded by DllImport. Only NuGet libraries can have runtimeTargets! Okay, then, trick the build to add runtime libraries into an existing NuGet library.

[silkfire]

Another thing that doesn’t seem to be possible at the moment is specifying a subdirectory where the native library ends up after publish. Right now they’re all emitted to the root (/publish/) directory, regardless if they reside in a subdirectory inside the NuGet package itself (/runtimes/<arch>/native/sub1/sub2/mylib.dll).