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) -- Mike Jackson -- Michael A. Jackson 400 S. Pioneer Blvd Owner, President Springboro, Ohio 45066 BlueQuartz Software, LLC EMail: mailto:mike.jack...@bluequartz.net Voice: 937-790-1601 Web: http://www.bluequartz.net/ Fax: 937-746-0783 From: CMake <cmake-boun...@cmake.org> on behalf of Petr Kmoch <petr.km...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 3:32 AM To: cen <imba...@gmail.com> Cc: CMake <cmake@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:imba...@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 -- Powered by http://kitware.com/cmake Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit https://cmake.org/services Visit other Kitware open-source projects at https://www.kitware.com/platforms Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake This mailing list is deprecated in favor of https://discourse.cmake.org -- Powered by kitware.com/cmake Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit https://cmake.org/services Visit other Kitware open-source projects at https://www.kitware.com/platforms Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake This mailing list is deprecated in favor of https://discourse.cmake.org -- Powered by kitware.com/cmake Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit https://cmake.org/services Visit other Kitware open-source projects at https://www.kitware.com/platforms Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake This mailing list is deprecated in favor of https://discourse.cmake.org