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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you post your CMakeLists.txt? Did you get different errors for each of the 3 solutions you tried, or were they all the same error? What was the exception code?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'>Aaron C. Meadows</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cmake-bounces@cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces@cmake.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Torri<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> cmake@cmake.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [CMake] Problem finding DLLS to use with tests<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am using cmake 2.8 for building MSVC solutions for a project.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The project builds fine as do the tests on Windows. The problem<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>comes when I try to run the tests. I usually get an error message<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>that the dependent DLLs cannot be found. I have searched on google<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>for an answer and came up with a variety of possible solutions. I was<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>not able to get any of them to work. So I am looking for suggestions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The methods I found were:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>1. Add the directory to the DLLs to the PATH environment.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2. Copy the DLLs from their installation directory to the directory of the<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> test binary.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3. Statically link the dependent libraries to the target executable/library.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I was wondering if someone can point me towards an example, tutorial or<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>appropriate documentation that shows how I can best solve this problem.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Stephen<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>