Copydeps cannot resolve any dll

[Vince-LD]

Hello,
I just built my first Rust tool that uses opencv. I'd like to distribute it to some friends but don't want them to get through the hassle of getting all the required .dll so your tool seems perfect to bundle the libraries with the .exe.

I installed copydeps via cargo install copydeps and tried to run copydeps absolute_path_to_my.exe.
I got the output :

copydeps: failed to resolve "MSVCP140.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "VCRUNTIME140.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "bcrypt.dll"
copydeps: failed to resolve "opencv_world470.dll"

when I use the dependency_runner crate with the command deprun path_to_my.exe I get the correct path to de dlls.

If i have to manually copy/paste paths to copydeps from deprun, it would be the same as copying them by hand. Do you have any idea of how to fix this issue?

[suve]

Which OS are you running?

[Vince-LD]

Yes sorry I completely forget to write it, I'm on Windows 11.

[suve]

The simple truth is I've written this to be a Linux tool and never gave running under Windows any thought.

Adding support for running under Windows could be a nice feature, though. Thanks for mentioning dependency_runner - offloading the job of resolving files to another crate would make this a lot easier.

[Vince-LD]

That makes sense haha

I don't know how easy it is to parse a JSON in Rust but deprun has a JSON output that may be used by copydeps for a cheap and dirty fix.