From: Warren Young Date: November 13 2006 11:33pm Subject: Re: Visual Studio unable to locate mysqlpp.dll List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/6105 Message-Id: <455900E0.7040309@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gary Anderson wrote: > I can get around it by setting the working directory to the > directory where mysqlpp.dll exists, but I don't really like this as a > long-term solution. Does anyone have an alternate fix? Put the DLL in the same directory as the executable. (The "Debug" or "Release" subdirectory of the project directory, if you haven't modified the project's default configuration.) Windows looks in the EXE's folder first for DLLs, before checking the PATH.