Question

I’m writing small application using OpenCV. Everything works great on my computer. I can compile and run my program without any problems.However if I copy Debug directory to another computer and try to run MyApplication.exe I get

The application has failed to start because cv210.dll was not found" 

What is strange for me is the fact that all lib files are in Debug directory. Here is a list of files
which are in Debug

    2010-04-06  02:05           471˙900 cv210.lib
2010-04-06  02:11           473˙226 cv210d.lib
2010-04-06  02:06           501˙562 cvaux210.lib
2010-04-06  02:12           503˙016 cvaux210d.lib
2010-04-06  02:04           411˙508 cxcore210.lib
2010-04-06  02:10           412˙836 cxcore210d.lib
2010-04-06  02:05           215˙142 cxts210.lib
2010-04-06  02:05           232˙778 highgui210.lib
2010-04-06  02:12           233˙396 highgui210d.lib
2011-04-01  06:04         1˙622˙192 libboost_filesystem-vc100-mt-1_46_1.lib
2011-09-03  16:17         1˙144˙320 MyApplication.exe
2011-09-03  16:17         4˙037˙024 MyApplication.ilk
2010-04-06  02:04           321˙358 ml210.lib
2010-04-06  02:11           322˙314 ml210d.lib
2010-04-06  02:05           181˙208 opencv_ffmpeg210.lib
2010-04-06  02:12           181˙656 opencv_ffmpeg210d.lib

What should I do to run this program on other computers

Answer 1

A .lib is not a DLL. A lib is like a collection of obj files. Compilers and linkers know about yout .lib file, but it is useless for the OS. You need a DLL for that