[CMake] Missing dll on program startup - a way automate it?

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi.

I haven't used it yet, but I believe the target property
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/VS_DEBUGGER_ENVIRONMENT.html
might help you.

Petr

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 01:02, cen <imbacen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Perhaps not really a cmake problem but here we go. An exe depends on a
> few DLLs which I ship in the repo so the rest of the devs don't have to
> build them or fetch them somewhere else. Cmake finds the libraries and
> project builds just fine, until you run it from VS.. you are welcomed by
> the "missing dll" windows error. So I have to copy all the dlls to the
> build/run folder to make it work but this is a manual step. Is there
> some way in cmake/VS to somehow tell the IDE to append the execution
> $PATH with all the specified library dependencies or something along
> those lines? Ideally my goal is to just run cmake, open VS, build the
> project and run, all automagical.
>
> I would prefer to keep the dynamic linking.
>
>
> Best regards, cen
>
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