GDAL C# plugins NuGet crash related to missing MSSQLSpatial DLL #12787
Description
What is the bug?
When using the GDAL.Plugins NuGet package for the C# bindings, when Gdal.AllRegister() is called there is an unhandled exception in GDALConfiguration.cs:
Can't load requested DLL: *SolutionDirectory*\bin\Debug\net8.0\gdal\x64\plugins\ogr_MSSQLSpatial.dll 126: The specified module could not be found
where SolutionDirectory is the .sln directory
This crash was not present in earlier versions; instead, a warning message was written to console.
Steps to reproduce the issue
Create a new C# solution (I am using Visual Studio Community 2022 and the console app template for a new solution)
Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage packages for solution
Install GDAL, GDAL.Native and GDAL.Plugins (I was using version 3.11.3 of the NuGet packages)
Add the lines:
GdalConfiguration.ConfigureGdal(); GdalConfiguration.ConfigureOgr();
Run the program
Versions and provenance
Tested on version 3.11.3 of the NuGet packages, downloaded through the Visual Studio UI
The last version that worked without the crash was 3.4.3 as far as I can tell
Additional context
Apologies if this isn't the right place for this bug, or if it is the result of an intended change and is not a bug. I haven't been able to find any information about the issue, and given that the packages behaved differently in the past my guess was that this is a bug, but it could easily be user error on my part.