Installation files

[whugemann]

I have just written my first small Windows command line apllication with C# and Magick.NET and delivered it to the first test users. Restricting it to 64 bit Windows (IM Q64, non-HDRI) , I distributed the following files:

Magick.Native-Q16-x64.dll
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.dll
Magick.NET.Core.dll
AppName.exe | .pdb | .dll | .deps.json | .runtimeconfig.json

As far as I understand it, the IM standard distribution does not need to be installed on the target computer, the .NET-DLLs contain all that's needed (?).
When I will write more Apps in the near future, the users could place the in the same directory, and the .NET-DLLs are only needed once for all EXEs (?).

There are however some computers where the cmd-box of my application only shows up shortly and my app does not perform its intended task. The pop-up of the cmd-box is so short that it can't be captured by a normal screen recoder. These computers seem to have the HDRI-version of IM installed. Could there be some sort of interference? How can I possibly find out what's the problem on these computers?

[dlemstra]

The Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.dll library contains a statically compiled version of ImageMagick and it's dependencies. You can place multiple executables in that same directory but you will need to make sure all your applications are linked with the same version of that library.

My "trick" to figure out what is going on with the .cmd files is by putting a pause at the end when the application exits with a non zero exit code.