title: Visual Studio 2017 dependent .dll not found
body: <p>I am working on a speech recognition children's game using an external API that I want to use on my project. Said API has lib files, dll files, header files and cpp files. As of right now I have successfully added the library files (at least I think I have) to my project directory, added all the necessary header files to external dependencies and I am left to add two .dll files to my project. First, I add my Audio.dll file and it gets added perfectly with no issues. Second, I add my Speech.dll and here is where my problem arises. I don't receieve any errors in my debug error list, however, the output of my project looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Path\Project.exe'. Symbols loaded.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\mscoree.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbased.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  'Project.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\vcruntime140d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
  The thread 0x3274 has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135).
  The thread 0x198c has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135).
  The program '[17020] Project.exe' has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135) 'A dependent dll was not found'.
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  <p>After this I get a popup System Error: The code execution cannot proceed because Speech.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.</p>
  
  <p>No mention of Audio.dll, however, Speech.dll which is in the same folder as Audio.dll isn't being found. I tried reinstalling the .dll, I tried reinstalling Visual Studio 2017, I tried Add->Existing Item->.dll, I tried adding the dll to the project path where the .exe is and I've tried adding it to every folder/subfolder all receiving the same sequence as my output.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, how do I get my visual studio 2017 project to recognize my Speech.dll file?</p>