Question: copy bundled libvips to another directory

Is there possibility to set the directory for bundled libvips before runtime? I don’t want to have all the dll’s in my working directory, I’d prefer something like “Release/vips/”.

<UseGlobalLibvips>true</UseGlobalLibvips>
<LibvipsDLLPath>C:\vips-dev-w64-web\bin</LibvipsDLLPath>

This just copies the vips in selected directory to the output directory. I can’t set EnvironmentVariable this way:

private static void SetVipsPath()
{
    string executingAssemblyFile = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase.Replace("file:///", null);
    string executingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(executingAssemblyFile);
    string vipsPath = $"{Path.Combine(executingDirectory, "vips")};";
    Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", vipsPath);
}

either, because libvips’s Initializer is called before runtime and throws exception because can’t find libvips in my output directory.

Thanks in advance for your reply!

[kleisauke]

Thanks for testing! I’ll publish a new version (1.0.6) on NuGet with this improvement in the course of next week.

[kleisauke]

See: https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/issues/21#issuecomment-456761406.