[Win7]: Runtime failure due to native dependencies

[prasannavl]

I was testing an application in Win 7 for backward compatibility. So, freshly booted clean install of the latest Win 7 64-bit build 7601 (with SP1) from MSDN. However, I ended up with a strange exception that said libSkiaSharp.dll could not be found even though it was right by the executable.

So, I had a hunch it was likely that the module couldn't be loaded successfully, which I was able to confirm after poking into it. Turns out libSkiaSharp.dll that's packaged with nuget is dynamically linked to the VC++ runtime 2015 - which a clean install of 7 doesn't have. I guess, this is kind of the usual problems we run into working with native libraries. However, is it possible to statically link, or use a MinGW compilation of Skia that can be done with the nuget?

Also, it might make sense to document this behavior somewhere that the VC++ 2015 runtime is required, since the nuget version of the build is from the VC2015 compiler.

Or it will fail with a not very helpful DllNotFoundException that may not make much sense right away for people who don't work with native code.

[prasannavl]

Oh damn. I just realized it is already right on the README file. My apologies. Closing this.

[mattleibow]

@prasannavl, no prob. It was also discussed a bit here #136