Doesn't sound like a known issue to me, but cc @Daft-Freak who might remember more. Since it crashes on something basic like SDL_CreateWindow I'd suggest looking at the test suite examples using that ...
I'm new to all this but I think I generated the bindings correctly and copied the DLL and PDB to the C# project and linked it as my code finds the SDL methods but it looks like it can't find the base ...