Unable to activate Windows Store app?

FMOD Engine
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I’m attempting to add fmod to an OpenGLES 2 Application that is included with Visual Studio 2015. I have added fmodL_X86.lib to my Additional Dependencies, and fmodL_X86.dll is marked as content. I updated Package.appxmanifest’s Capabilities to include Internet (Client), Internet (Client & Server), Microphone, and Private Networks (Client and Server).
To simplify testing, I’m working in debug x86 (although I get the same problems if I link against the arm/x64 libs+dlls and attempt to run those) and only added a couple lines of code on Initialize:
FMOD::System *system;
FMOD_RESULT result = FMOD::System_Create( &system );

Everything seems to statically link just fine, but when launching the app, I get the following error:
Unable to activate Windows Store app ‘84eb1360-ccf0-475a-bd25-a953e20e6ff6_40qvqfczahf76!App’. The FModTest.WindowsUniversal.Application.exe process started, but the activation request failed with error ‘The app didn’t start’.

I’m attempting to duplicate everything I see in the UWP examples (as they run just fine).

Did I miss any steps required to setup fmod in UWP?

Thanks!

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You can get more information about UWP apps failing to start by looking in the Windows Event Viewer, under Windows Logs/Application.

Make sure your app has Microsoft.VCLibs as a reference.

When running apps under the debugger the package contents will be set up as a loose directory in your projects output folder. You can browse the folder to make sure the DLL has been copied and is in the root folder.

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Thanks Nicholas.

It seems that it was copying the DLLs into a subfolder. Moving the DLLs to the root of the project gets everything working!