Hi,
I am building a program with CMake and compiling it with visual
studio 2005 (VC 8). The program needs some .dll files which do not
exist in the output directory in which the output executable file is
written.
So when I run the program, I get the message that a dll file is
missing etc.
My question is: can I tell the program in CMake where the dll files
are?
CMake has not much to do with this, you could write a custom command
to copy the dlls into the same directory where the executable is. But
there is no need for that. You just must make sure, that the dlls are
found. Read this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18(VS.80).aspx
So either add the directory of the dlls to the PATH environment
variable, either system wide or only for the application, or put it in
the Windows directory (wouldn't do that ;).
Or can I force the program to link these dlls at linking-time so that
they are not needed at runtime?
For this you would need static libraries not shared ones. It's the
purpose of the shared libraries not to be linked in into the program.
Regards,
Werner
Many thanks,
Zein
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