Why is Visual Studio not looking for the dll in the project folder?

Question

visual studio

There is a project on Visual Studio 2012 and Qt5, which requires several third-party dlls to run. They were always in the project folder, and everything worked. For several months I did not return to the project, and now I needed to start it again, but it does not start, it gives the following errors:

During this time, I reinstalled Windows, and, accordingly, Visual Studio.
And yes, by the way, the studio didn’t see Qt dlls either, until I added the path to them in PATH. I completely reinstalled the studio, did not help.

Answer 1

How do you run the compiled EXE? From the studio or from the Release / Debug directory by hand?