Steamworks cannot find DLL

[campervcs934]

Hi there! I'm using steamworks version 20.1.0 Unity version: 2021.3.13f1 (m1 version) OS: macOS Monterey 12.5 I've got an error when trying to initialize steam api

[Steamworks.NET] Could not load [lib]steam_api.dll/so/dylib. It's likely not in the correct location. Refer to the README for more details.
System.DllNotFoundException: steam_api assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Steamworks.NativeMethods.SteamAPI_RestartAppIfNecessary(Steamworks.AppId_t)

I will be appreciated for any help!

[cookie966507]

I had to go to the steamworks SDK and go to C:\Steam\steamworks_sdk_155\sdk\redistributable_bin\linux64 and copy the libsteam_api.so file into the mac build folder: Game Name.app\Contents\PlugIns

This seems to no longer to be copied when building anymore for some reason. I made my own script that copies it every time a build finishes. We had a crashing mac build on steam, then stopped once we copied over this one file and reuploaded.

@rlabrecque ^ not sure if you were aware of this or not

[rlabrecque]

Hmm, you should not be needing the .so file ever on OSX, so that's a little scary for multiple reasons. It should be using the steam_api.bundle and dylib inside it on osx from within: https://github.com/rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET/blob/master/com.rlabrecque.steamworks.net/Plugins

I wonder if you need to redownload the dylib like this person did?

https://github.com/rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET/issues/462#issuecomment-1051005021

[cookie966507]

Ah you're right, only the dylib was needed. We only included the .so file because an older version of Steamworks appeared to add it to our build folder and I was trying to compare to a project that worked.

We also had crashing on the Steamdeck because of this, so once we can verify it is working on there as well, will comment.