Thanks, this is exactly what I need.

Unfortunately constructing the path expansion involves some gymnastics. If Find* exposes a list of directories it's just a simple list join (-> boost) but if it does not it is more involved..

list(JOIN Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS ";" BOOST_PATH)

set(ZLIB_PATH "")
FOREACH(LIB_NAME ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
   get_filename_component(LDIR ${LIB_NAME} DIRECTORY)
   if (NOT ZLIB_PATH MATCHES "${LDIR}")
     set(ZLIB_PATH "${ZLIB_PATH};${LDIR}")
   endif()
ENDFOREACH()

set(EXPAND_PATH "${ZLIB_PATH};${BOOST_PATH}")
set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES VS_DEBUGGER_ENVIRONMENT "PATH=%PATH%${EXPAND_PATH}")


Is there a way to get a list of all additional library directories? That would be ideal but I couldn't find anything.


On 11/20/19 9:32 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 <imba...@gmail.com <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

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