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Windows can't locate DLL files installed with conan


I am trying to get startet with conan and am following this tutorial:

https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/consuming_packages/build_simple_cmake_project.html

Everything seemed to work well, zlib was installed and the program was built succesfully, but when I try to run the compressor.exe I get the error "zlib1.dll not found". How do I fix this/what is going wrong here?

I am running on Windows 10 with Visual Studio.

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Solution

  • I found the problem. The zlib1.dll file is copied into the same folder as the executable, but whenever I try to run the program through Visual Studio, Visual Studio seems to delete the dll file before the program is executed.

    The next question would be why? And how do I stop Visual Studio from doing that?

    Edit: I'll just use VSCode from now on, from there everything seems to work better