Cannot set up SAP NW RFC with Azure DevOps - azure-devops

In our solution we are interacting with SAP using the "Classic" API of the SAP RFC SDK.
We have hosted the application in Azure Services, hence not possible to place the librfc32.dll in the required path of C drive.
We have added the librfc32.dll in the solution and marked it Copy Always to the folder.
While we publish the solution locally and deploy using FTP in Azure Services, it works fine.
However when deployed using ADO pipeline, it gives the below error.
We have checked both published and ADO generated artifact and in both places the librfc32.dll is present fine.
Cannot call classic RFC API. See help for details. Please put a recent 64-bit version of librfc32.dll in your System32 folder (typically C:\Windows\System32). See SAP note 413708. Please make sure you have installed Visual C++ 2005 SP1 ATL Security Update (x64). An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B)
Any suggestion?

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