Is WPF Supported on Windows Nano Server?

Description

On .NET Core 3.1 it was possible to run a WPF console app on Windows Nano Server. There is no UI, only usage of the Geometry classes in System.Windows.Media.Media3D. No typeface classes are used (as in #3609).

See this post: https://blog.tonysneed.com/2020/07/04/run-wpf-in-net-core-on-nano-server-in-docker. And this repo: https://github.com/tonysneed/hello-netcore-wpf-nano

However, when attempting to port the app to .NET 6, running the app results in a DllNotFoundException for dwrite.dll.

This error is not generated when running the container on a Windows Server Core base image.

Reproduction Steps

Clone this repo: https://github.com/mpospisil/dotnet-runtime-windowsdesktop/tree/main/Examples/WpfConsole/WpfConsole

Build Windows container image: docker build -t wpf-console . Run the container: docker run -it wpf-console

Expected behavior

Able to create a Point3D object from a WPF console app running on Windows Nano Server.

Actual behavior

Executing WPF console app on Nano server produces the following error.

Unhandled exception. System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for '<Module>' threw an exception.
 ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for '<Module>' threw an exception.
 ---> <CrtImplementationDetails>.ModuleLoadException: The C++ module failed to load during appdomain initialization.

 ---> System.DllNotFoundException: dwrite.dll
 ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (126): The specified module could not be found.

Regression?

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Known Workarounds

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Impact

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Configuration

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Other information

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[miloush]

Thank you for confirmation @tonysneed. I would still be interested in whether we could delay-load the dwrite until it is actually needed.

[miloush]

/cc @ThomasGoulet73 @rladuca

If this (= using types in PresentationCore unrelated to DWrite without DWrite) worked before I would be sympathetic to keeping it working.