Linking dlls from subfolder - Visual Studio

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I built my project and in configuration folders (ie. release) I have .exe files. I copied (manually) all .dll there but it looks messy. Now I want to move that dlls to subfolder, but in that case app can't find dlls. Is there any way to set directory in Visual Studio 2010 to look for dll in subfolder? Thanks

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '16 at 03:13

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You can try Using runtime dynamic linking

answered Jun 01 '16 at 03:13

jackson.ke

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I already know this solution. I search something to set in Visual Studio (if there is such possibility) not using dynamic linking. – never_ever Jun 01 '16 at 03:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

No, there's no such option in Visual Studio, because it's not Visual Studio that loads these DLL's. C++ is a compiled language; Visual Studio produces executables and DLL's for Windows to run. And Windows doesn't look at Visual Studio settings when running executables - your typical user probably doesn't even have Visual Studio installed!

As for Windows checking subdirectories - it's possible with manifests but not easy.

Linking dlls from subfolder - Visual Studio

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