Webview2Loader.dll not detected

[leaanthony]

Hey there 😄 Looks like webviewloader cannot detect WebView2Loader.dll in every scenario except if it is alongside the binary. Is that because the official DLL isn't in a default library directory? Cheers.

[jchv]

In which directory are you trying to have it pick up WebView2Loader.dll from? In theory we should be getting the Standard Search Order for Desktop Applications.

[leaanthony]

Yeah, I assumed that if you use NewLazyDLL("WebView2Loader.dll") it would search those paths and also assumed that "WebView2Loader.dll" would be installed in one of those paths. I mean, it's a lot of assumptions granted 😂

[jchv]

Yeah, Webview2Loader won't be installed in a system directory, to my understanding; it's part of the Webview2 SDK, not the runtime. You need to have it bundled with your app. That's the main reason why go-webview2 bundles it and uses go-winloader.

Webview2Loader doesn't have a whole lot of functionality in it, though. It mainly exists to just provide the logic for finding and loading Webview2. I have reverse engineered it over here: OpenWebView2Loader.

(Addendum: go-webview2 attempts to load from disk first so that you can swap in a new binary without needing to recompile.)

[leaanthony]

I think porting that to Go would be fun!