Compile error tracing to FreeImage.dll not found

Hi, I’ve had this issue start popping up about a week into using Monogame for college work and ran into this. All of the posts I’ve seen so far about this have been back in 2016 and such, is there a more modern solution or will those work?

Are you on an ARM device ? or a standard x64 (Intel, AMD) one?

I think its a standard x64 intel, its a Windows Surface Pro 2

Checking the current 3.8.4.1 release, the free image dll doesn’t have any dynamically linked dependencies like the C++ redistributable that some others had. Both WS2_32 and KERNEL32 are part of windows already

This doesn’t help answer the question, but it does rule out that issue