NuGet package not working with .NET Framework greater than 4.0 about imobiledevice-net

[qmfrederik]

Can you provide a bit more of information on which error you got? We've been using imobiledevice-net on .NET 4.6.2 for quite a while without issues.

[stefanodriussi]

Ok this really strange.
After reading your response i jumped back to my little project solution and tried to retarget first to 4.5 then 4.6 and surprisingly it worked.
Created three new projects from scratch 4.0 4.5 4.6 and added imobiledevice-net package from nuget to the three of them. Run them and got the runtime exception on all three

System.DllNotFoundException: 'Unable to load the DLL 'libimobiledevice': Unable to find specified module. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).'

The code i'm using is this

NativeLibraries.Load();
deviceApi = new iDeviceApi(LibiMobileDevice.Instance);
deviceApi.idevice_event_subscribe((ref iDeviceEvent devEvent, IntPtr data) =>
{
    switch (devEvent.@event)
    {
       // switch code here ...
    }
}

the exception shows up as soon as i call idevice_event_subscribe method

[qmfrederik]

It looks like it's loading the 64-bit imobiledevice.dll on 32-bit .NET or the other way around.
Can you change your project to target x64 or x86 instead of Any CPU?

[stefanodriussi]

After some tests, including changing the target to x64, what I discovered is that if I manually copy all the contents from the win7-x64\native folder directly inside my bin/Debug one , it works but for instance, if only copy that libimobiledevice.dll it keeps crashing when i launch it.

[qmfrederik]

@stefanodriussi Yes, you need all files from the win7-x64\native folder for it to work. libimobiledevice.dll depends on some other .dll files, so that's why you get that behavior.

Out of curiosity, which version of the NuGet package are you using?

[stefanodriussi]

@qmfrederik sorry for the late response.
I'm using NuGet package version 1.2.0.112

[stefanodriussi]

I've noticed a strange behavior:
if I copy all the assemblies (from the correct architecture folder) inside my application root folder, everything works but if i delete the original native folder it throws an exception
.
If I delete everything from that folder and leave it empty, apparently the previous check goes through and it loads the libraries.