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

[Michael Jackson]

You can also use cmake to just copy the DLLs into the appropriate directory. Here is a snippet from our own projects.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#- This copies all the Prebuilt Pipeline files into the Build directory so the help
#- works from the Build Tree
add_custom_target(PrebuiltPipelinesCopy ALL
            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${DREAM3D_SUPPORT_DIR}/PrebuiltPipelines
            ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/PrebuiltPipelines/
            COMMENT "Copying Prebuilt Pipelines into Binary Directory")
set_target_properties(PrebuiltPipelinesCopy PROPERTIES FOLDER ZZ_COPY_FILES)

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From: CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org> on behalf of Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 3:32 AM
To: cen <imbacen at gmail.com>
Cc: CMake <cmake at cmake.org>
Subject: Re: [CMake] Missing dll on program startup - a way automate it?

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 <mailto: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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