# RUNTIME\_DEPENDENCIES cannot find dll

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/runtime-dependencies-cannot-find-dll/3782
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**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/runtime-dependencies-cannot-find-dll/3782 "2021-07-19T16:12:35Z")
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#### Post date: [July 19, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/runtime-dependencies-cannot-find-dll/3782/4 "2021-07-19T19:32:01Z")

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`DIRECTORIES` is more needed on Windows than on Linux and Mac because it has no equivalent to RPATH. Linux rarely needs `DIRECTORIES` (and warns you if it finds something in a `DIRECTORIES` argument), and on Mac it isn’t even used at all.

We deliberately made the decision to not consider the `PATH` variable in `file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES)`, because setting the `PATH` from outside the project could change the results of it. You can add `$<TARGET_DIR:qt6core>` to the `DIRECTORIES` argument, which should allow it to find it.

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