How do I pull full paths out of UNRESOLVED_DEPENDENCIES_VAR

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Very first post, please remove if silly.

I’ve got something like this in my setup :

file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES
RESOLVED_DEPENDENCIES_VAR RES
UNRESOLVED_DEPENDENCIES_VAR UNRES
CONFLICTING_DEPENDENCIES_PREFIX CONFLICTING_DEPENDENCIES
EXECUTABLES $<TARGET_FILE:${targetName}>)

My goal is to be able to install the dependencies on any dev machine.
UNRES only contains a list of API files (msvc toolset) as it doesn’t know where they are, just that the target needs them.

I’ve attempted to couple this with find_path() but it’ll return the local path where it’s expected to be in the target, not the actual path to that dll.

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They’re unresolved because it is unknown where they live. Otherwise they’d be in RES in your example :slight_smile: .

As for the ms-api- and other similar DLLs, these are “fake” DLLs and are a technique Microsoft is using to make ABI compatibility more granular (instead of a single massive MSVCRT DLL). See the discussion here for more details on it and a potential mechanism CMake can provide to help users out with these specific DLLs.

Cc: @kyle.edwards

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Oh, of course, that would make sense… :sweat_smile:
Following the discussion helped a lot, thank you Ben!