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

[Fred Baksik]

Adding the relevant directories to PATH in the debugger or build environment should allow them to be found. 

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, at 3:32 AM, Petr Kmoch wrote:
> 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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