diff --git a/src/Tesseract/Internal/InteropDotNet/LibraryLoader.cs b/src/Tesseract/Internal/InteropDotNet/LibraryLoader.cs
index ccfb9091..fa14e772 100644
--- a/src/Tesseract/Internal/InteropDotNet/LibraryLoader.cs
+++ b/src/Tesseract/Internal/InteropDotNet/LibraryLoader.cs
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ private IntPtr CheckExecutingAssemblyDomain(string fileName, string platformName
 
             var baseDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(executingAssembly.Location);
             Logger.TraceInformation("Checking executing application domain location '{0}' for '{1}' on platform {2}.", baseDirectory, fileName, platformName);
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(baseDirectory))
+                return IntPtr.Zero;
             return InternalLoadLibrary(baseDirectory, platformName, fileName);
         }