Referencing ImageMagick.NET for use from a BPM

Kinetic ERP
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Anyone has any experience with using the ImageMagick library from Epicor/Kinetic?

I had an old external DLL which has been converted to BPMs and Epicor Functions for Kinetic 2023.2. I obtained the Nuget package and built a dummy Netstandard2.1 app with it, which produced the following reference files:

  • Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.dll
  • Magick.NET.Core.dll
  • Magick.Native-Q16-x64.dll

The first two are valid .NET libraries, but they in turn reference a native C++ library, which is the third one. I deployed all three to the Assemblies folder on the server, and I am able to reference the first two, and the BPM code does compile. However at runtime I get the following exception:

Server Side Exception

BPM runtime caught an unexpected exception of 'TypeInitializationException' type.
See more info in the Inner Exception section of Exception Details.

Exception caught in: Epicor.ServiceModel

Error Detail 
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Correlation ID:  fd185775-d41c-4d11-b156-0b6cdf04bedc
Description:  BPM runtime caught an unexpected exception of 'TypeInitializationException' type.
See more info in the Inner Exception section of Exception Details.
Inner Exception:  Unable to load DLL 'Magick.Native-Q16-x64.dll' or one of its dependencies: The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)
Program:  Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.dll
Method:  .ctor

I have tried every which way to deploy these files (in \Bin, in \Assemblies, even in System32…), but nothing seems to work, and I am at a loss why… I do not know where its looking for the native DLL.

I also tried to install every Visual C++ redistributable I could find, and rebooting the server, to no avail…

Anyone has any idea?

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Nevermind, figured it out… For posterity, the two managed DLLs go into Server\Assemblies, but the native DLL goes into Server\Bin\runtimes\win-x64\native.

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Ok, now that your issue is sorted, please share with the class what you are doing with it. Sounds intriguing.

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Nothing interesting, converting PDF pages to images, overlaying stuff, merging, etc… TBH I don’t even know what the output is supposed to look like, I’m just porting…