NativeMethod failed with NullReferenceException under c# ONNX in Windows_NT

Describe the issue

I have a C# unit test that load an ONNX model and do a prediction. The test works well in my Windows 11 box. But when I tested it in my Windows Server, it failed with a nullreference exception.

I wonder if the ONNX runtime package is compatible with Windows_NT.

Error message:

  Failed Datahunter.Tests.BertSentenceSimilarity.NLPSearchTest.GivenTwoTitles_ThenFindOutSimilarityScore(title1: "Battery technologies mass weighted SDP", title2: "battery life cycle", expectedScore: 0.92900002) [508 ms]
  Error Message:
   System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for 'Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.NativeMethods' threw an exception.
---- System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  Stack Trace:
     at Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.SessionOptions..ctor()
   at Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.InferenceSession..ctor(String modelPath)
   at Datahunter.Tests.BertSentenceSimilarity.NLPSearchTest.GivenTwoTitles_ThenFindOutSimilarityScore(String title1, String title2, Single expectedScore) in D:\vsts-agent-win-x64-3.225.0\_work\60\s\DataHunter-Main\tests\Datahunter.Tests\BertSentenceSimilarity\NLPSearchTest.cs:line 95
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
----- Inner Stack Trace -----
   at Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime.NativeMethods..cctor()

System information: OS: Windows_NT OSArchitecture: x64 OSVersion: 10.0.20348

To reproduce

in a Windows_NT box, run a dotnet net unit test to load an ONNX model. I have something like these.

 private string _baseUncasedModelFromPytorchPath = @"BertSentenceSimilarity/bert-base-uncased.onnx";

 public async Task GivenTwoTitles_ThenFindOutSimilarityScore(string title1, string title2, float expectedScore)
 {
     // Arrange
     // Create an InferenceSession from the Model Path.
     using var session = new InferenceSession(Path.GetFullPath(_baseUncasedModelFromPytorchPath));
     using var runOptions = new RunOptions();
 }

Urgency

No response

Platform

Windows

OS Version

10.0.20348

ONNX Runtime Installation

Released Package

ONNX Runtime Version or Commit ID

1.18.0

ONNX Runtime API

Architecture

X64

Execution Provider

Default CPU

Execution Provider Library Version

No response

microsoft / onnxruntime