The library hostpolicy.dll was not found

Question

I have a simple .NET Core project (console app) that I\'m trying to compile and run. dotnet build succeeds, but I get the following error when I do dotnet

Answer 1

If I'm not mistaken, one scenario when you can hit the issue is this: You have an integration project that references another application project (not library). In this case, dependentProject.runtimeconfig.json won't be copied to your integration project's output folder and you won't be able to run dependentProject.exe binary because it will throw The library hostpolicy.dll was not found..

There is a Github issue for this and a workaround.