title: Why is the DLL not copied to output directory? C++ Visual Studio
body: <p>I set up a c++ project to use a DLL in visual studio. The library had .h .lib and .dll files. The program compiles and runs, and successfully uses the library. The DLL was put in the root directory of the <strong>source</strong>, not the output directory. When I build, I expected the DLL to be copied form the source to the output directory, but it's not. All I see in the output directory is 3 files of type, application, incremental linker file, and program debug database.</p>
  
  <p>Maybe I'm wrong but I thought that the DLL needed to be in the same folder as the executable in the output directory. So what's going on?</p>