Visual Studio working directory

Question

It looks like there are similar question to mine, but they have workarounds that I would rather avoid.

I have a bin folder in my project that contains all the dynamic libraries needed to run the program.

So to let the program find the dll, I have set the Working Directory in

Project Property Pages -> All Configurations 
-> Configuration Properties -> Debugging -> Working Directory

Unfortunately I am greated with an error that the libary has not been found. It looks like VS does not change the working directory before running the program.

Did I miss something or is this a known bug without a fix?

Answer 1

Don't have VS currently available but I usually add all shared libraries to my PATH variable. Just add as environment variable

I know it's not a direct answer to your question but I hope it helps anyway