Native plugin in package causing copy/delete errors

Package Manager
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I’m getting errors for my native DLL in my custom package (from git GitHub - StrangeLoopGames/RuntimeGraphicsInfo)

Could not delete file ‘Library/ScriptAssemblies/RuntimeGraphicsInfo.dll.bak’

UnityEditor.Scripting.ScriptCompilation.EditorCompilationInterface:TickCompilationPipeline(EditorScriptCompilationOptions, BuildTargetGroup, BuildTarget) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Scripting/ScriptCompilation/EditorCompilationInterface.cs:371)

and

Copying assembly from ‘Temp/RuntimeGraphicsInfo.dll’ to ‘Library/ScriptAssemblies/RuntimeGraphicsInfo.dll’ failed

Is there something I can do to stop this from happening? I suspect it has something to do with the native plugin being loaded in the editor…

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Hi @SLGSimon ,

Unfortunately I don’t think this is an issue with Package Manager but rather an issue with the Script Compilation Pipeline. You might have better luck asking in Unity Engine - Unity Discussions

Or perhaps this thread might help? It seems related:

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Let me ask a package manager specific question then: what is expected to happen when you have a native dll in a package and the package updates? As native plugins are never unloaded it would always cause an error correct?

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It looks like the problem was caused by an error on my part, I renamed the native dlls to something else, and it was instead trying to load the managed dll into itself.

Now that is working correctly, I can’t update the package while unity is running - as I expected - as the native plugin is loaded from there.