Originally Posted by
smokeyangel
Yep, you can do it like that. Or in the GUI you can add an external dependency to the project from Project Properties --> Linker --> Input, and put the library name in "Additional Dependencies".
So "solution" refers to the .sln file. I expect that's in the directory above the one you're in.
The Debug and Release folders contain files generated by the build, including: executables, object files, debugging information, log files...
If you are providing a release executable separately, you don't need to include these folders.
I'd go up a couple of levels and zip up the whole directory for the solution you're submitting.