From a2378ba7c8dcc5a92d74ba89418f911d031ad47c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Massimo Capodiferro <77293250+maxcapodi78@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:00:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] moved dll load at beginning of clr_module (#2929)

Co-authored-by: maxcapodi78 <Shark78>
---
 pyaedt/generic/clr_module.py | 2 ++
 pyaedt/generic/pdf.py        | 2 --
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyaedt/generic/clr_module.py b/pyaedt/generic/clr_module.py
index 08e2cb9dd68..ef4c054a867 100644
--- a/pyaedt/generic/clr_module.py
+++ b/pyaedt/generic/clr_module.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 is_linux = os.name == "posix"
 is_windows = not is_linux
 is_clr = False
+sys.path.append(os.path.join(pyaedt_path, "dlls", "PDFReport"))
 if is_linux and cpython:  # pragma: no cover
     try:
         if os.environ.get("DOTNET_ROOT") is None:
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
 
         load("coreclr")
         is_clr = True
+
     except:
         pass
 
diff --git a/pyaedt/generic/pdf.py b/pyaedt/generic/pdf.py
index c9a44db8da2..f673a5a55ae 100644
--- a/pyaedt/generic/pdf.py
+++ b/pyaedt/generic/pdf.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-import sys
 import warnings
 
 from pyaedt import __version__
@@ -9,7 +8,6 @@
 from pyaedt.generic.clr_module import _clr
 from pyaedt.generic.clr_module import is_clr
 
-sys.path.append(os.path.join(pyaedt_path, "dlls", "PDFReport"))
 try:
     _clr.AddReference("AnsysReport")
     from AnsysReport import CreatePdfReport