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  • R Offline
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    Romaniy
    wrote on last edited by
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    Hello everyone!

    I have just compiled new application, which works perfectly well.
    But when i tried change library path inside my application, I'll saw next problem during starting my program:

    This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

    Application works normal, when I don't change library path.
    I want, that my application works in any computer, without installing Qt library.
    I added library in this way:

    @ a.addLibraryPath(a.applicationDirPath() + "/plugins/");@

    "plugins" directory exists in this path.
    When I started application with old library path I'll saw next:

    ("D:/build-A_1-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MinGW_32bit-Release/release/plugins", "C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/mingw48_32/plugins", "D:/build-A_1-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MinGW_32bit-Release/release")

    But when I renamed this directory "C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/mingw48_32/plugins", my application stopped working with the same error.

    Please help me:)

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    • raven-worxR Offline
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      raven-worx
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      #2

      and where is your platform plugin located?
      You need to preserve Qt's plugin directory structure . Meaning you just can set the base-path for plugins, which contains the subfolders "imageformats", "platforms", ... and the respective plugin libraries then.

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      • R Offline
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        Romaniy
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        raven-worx, thank for your response)

        I copied directory plugins with all subdirectories from C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/mingw48_32/plugins to my application directory.
        My plugin directory consists:

        Directory of D:\build-A_1-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MinGW_32bit-Release\release\plugins

        25.11.2013 12:10 <DIR> .
        25.11.2013 12:10 <DIR> ..
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> accessible
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> bearer
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> designer
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> iconengines
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> imageformats
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> mediaservice
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> platforms
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> playlistformats
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> printsupport
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> qml1tooling
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> qmltooling
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> sensorgestures
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> sensors
        22.11.2013 13:34 <DIR> sqldrivers
        0 File(s) 0 bytes
        16 Dir(s) 11 077 955 584 bytes free

        But it didn't help:(

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        • SGaistS Offline
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          SGaist
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          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          Hi,

          IIRC, you should move the platforms folder from plugins to release

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          • R Offline
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            Romaniy
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            Yes, it's help.
            Thanks.

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