如何使我的应用程序使用Visual Studio查找第三方DLL？

Question

I have read many issues regarding and followed each one but nothing seems to work.

I am trying to include the rdkafka library into my project, but every time I run the application I am getting

The program can't start because librdkafka.dll is missing from your computer.

I can clearly see that librdkafka.dll as well as librdkafka.lib exist in the same directory. I have added the include files to the project, and I have also added the librdkafka.lib to the additional directories in the Linker section. The project builds fine but it throws that error at runtime.

Does anyone know how I can solve this issue?

Answer 1

When in Visual Studio by default it is searching for dlls in the project directory and running the application on its own will try to find the dlls in the current working directory. Moving the dlls to this location seems to solve the issue.