0x1mason
commented
8 years ago I moved recently and do not have my windows machine set up yet. A few ideas in the interim:
- At the entry point to you application try changing the working directory to the location of the GRIB.api.dll. Make sure it has the Grib.Api directory in it. Then call GribEnvironment.Init().
- Copy the GRIB.Api dir to your working directory. Then call GribEnv.Init. Try the same thing with the definitions directory.
- What if you hard code the env var GRIB_DEFINITION_PATH or set it in the build/debug properties? The idea is to make it available as soon as the app starts.
- Try setting the definitions path as a relative path. To dll as opposed to your app. Use
/instead of\ - Add the folder containing the Grib.Api directory to PATH
- Add the the folder containing the definitions directory (which is in the Grib.Api directory) to PATH
- Uber hacky and for testing purposes only, copy the definitions folder to a well-known location such as Windows/System32 folder.
Take a look at GribEnvironment.cs and GribEnvLoadHelper.cs to get an idea of what's going on.
I'll try to get my machine setup soon so I can give you move concrete help.
pavlose
Hi Eric, I have an ASP.NET website (working with Visual Studio 2013) and I am trying to use GribApi.NET. I am trying to create a new GribFile, i.e.,
using(GribFile file = new GribFile(weatherpath)) { }
but I keep getting a GribApiException:
GribEnvironment::DefinitionsPath must be a valid path. If you're using ASP.NET or NUnit, this exception is usually caused by shadow copying. Please see GribApi.NET's documentation for help. Path:...
I used your suggestion for shadow copying, i.e., setting
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("GRIB_API_DIR_ROOT", "C:\Some\Path", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
but it did not work. I tried to set GribEnvironment.DefinitionsPath myself but it did not work (same error message). Moreover, while debugging, I noticed that GribEnvironment.GribApiVersion has the indication:
"The type initializer for 'Grib.Api.Interop.SWIG.GribApiProxy' threw an exception."
Do you have any suggestions?