I have successfully built a Unity Vuforia app for Android, everything works as expected. Now, I am looking to build a Windows standalone version of the same app. My Windows standalone build cannot find the VuforiaEngine.dll. The location where it is looking for the file doesn't exist i.e. MyApp_Data/MonoBleedingEdge/VuforiaEngine.dll.
When I build and run the Windows app, I am presented with an error about a missing VuforiaEngine.dll.
I noticed in the Unity project package for Vuforia Engine AR, the plugins folder has sub-folders for Windows/x64. Inside here is a few plugins, most notably VuforiaEngine.dll (which my standalone build is struggling to locate). When inspecting this VuforiaEngine.dll plugin, I can see the supported platforms does not include standalone builds (it only includes Editor). I am unable to edit this plugin directly.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:
windows standalone app error screenshot
I have upgraded my Vuforia version to the latest release (10.18) via the Unity Asset Store and also upgraded my Unity version to their latest release (2022.3.11f1). I also played with many settings, although I am still unable to run my Windows standalone build with Vuforia initialised.
I expected the Windows standalone version to run similar to the Android version, using a connected webcam instead of the mobile device camera.
Has anyone come across this? I found some old posts online from users encountering similar issues on Mac, but I haven't found anyone with this particular issue on a Windows machine.
Vuforia Engine does not support Win32 (or 64) as a native platform. You can run engine in Unity PlayMode but you cannot create a standalone Win32 app.
If you want to create an app to run on Windows you have to create a UWP application as explained here https://library.vuforia.com/getting-started/getting-started-vuforia-engine-windows-10-development
Similarly, MacOS is not a supported deployment platform (beside Unity PlayMode) one can only build and deploy iOS applications.
