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These API calls define a process wide DLL search path which can be modified only by direct calls to these OS-specific functions. Some modern libraries specify the DefaultDllImportSearchPath attribute set to DllImportSearchPath.SafeDirectories which means that only this process wide DLL search path is used for loading native libraries, and the directories under the default PATH environment variable are ignored.
To workaround this, the bootstrapper should call the AddDllDirectory method for each active native library folder when bootstrapping the environment.
Unfortunately, adding the same folders to the PATH environment variable is still required, as the new process wide DLL search path is not used by some legacy libraries.
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Starting from Windows 8 and Windows 7 SP1 KB2533623, Microsoft introduced new API enhancements for securely loading external native libraries.
These API calls define a process wide DLL search path which can be modified only by direct calls to these OS-specific functions. Some modern libraries specify the
DefaultDllImportSearchPath
attribute set toDllImportSearchPath.SafeDirectories
which means that only this process wide DLL search path is used for loading native libraries, and the directories under the defaultPATH
environment variable are ignored.To workaround this, the bootstrapper should call the
AddDllDirectory
method for each active native library folder when bootstrapping the environment.Unfortunately, adding the same folders to the
PATH
environment variable is still required, as the new process wide DLL search path is not used by some legacy libraries.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: