Qt Creator nor standalone installation works on Windows 8 Pro
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Hi,
Have a look at JKSH's excellent wiki "entry":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Deploy_an_Application_on_Windows about that
For more details you can also go to the "Windows Deployment Guide":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html
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Been to both (love JKSH's post) . But the thing is, it works on Windows 7! The error message suggests I should only need to add qwindows.dll, which I have. Doesn't anyone know what the error message is supposed to show me besides going through every single dll there is?
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[quote author="SGaist" date="1393257866"]Hi,
Have a look at JKSH's excellent wiki "entry":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Deploy_an_Application_on_Windows about that
For more details you can also go to the "Windows Deployment Guide":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html[/quote]
Also, if you have a look at my question, I stated that it doesn't even work from Qt CreatorEDIT: Maybe I should have posted the question as "Qt Creator wont run applications on Windows 8" ?
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What puzzles me is that you have the other plugins listed.
Did you run Dependency Walker on qwindows.dll or your application ?
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I did not on the qwindows.dll, but I did on the app and added the dlls posted in the question. I shall try walker on qwindows.dll in a couple of hours. Thank you guys for your endless efforts!
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Now this is a bit troubling. I came home from work and testing my application at my Windows 8.1 Pro computer, and everything works fine! I have struggled with this for two days now. Is there an inconsistency between 8.1 pro and 8.0 pro with regards to Qt?
All the tools are the exact same versions. Glad I finally figured out that I was at least doing what you guys told me to to make it work.
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I can't really say. Apple has done some subtle internal modification for Mavericks that also broke some things so there might be something fishy between Windows 8 and 8.1 or maybe some anti-virus interaction
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Hi,
[quote]I then tried installing the Qt Creator and SDK, just to see if I could at least run an empty project. I created a empty GUI project, and when starting the application from Creator I got the same error as before. So, Qt is not working at all![/quote]That sounds like an issue with your laptop, not with missing DLLs.
Try to get an app to run correctly from Qt Creator on that laptop first. Until you succeed in that, it's highly unlikely that any deployed application will work.
Which version of Qt did you install on this laptop? (Is it Qt 5.2.1 for Windows 32-bit (MinGW 4.8, OpenGL, 634 MB)?)
What graphics card does it have?
[quote]I tried this on two different computers running Windows 8 Pro.[/quote]Are they the same brand + model of computers?
[quote]When running dependancy walker, I got these DLL’s missing:
API-MS-WIN-CORE-KERNEL32-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-PRIVATEPROFILE-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLLI did not find these dll’s under my windows installation, so I downloaded these from external sources and added them to my executables folder.[/quote]These are false positives. Dependency Walker will always complain that these DLLs are missing, no matter what program you examine (even official Microsoft ones). Ignore the message, and delete these DLLs from your deployment folder. The only DLLs you need can all be found in your Qt installation (unless you link to 3rd-party libraries).
Also, it's generally a bad idea to download DLLs from unofficial Internet sources. You never know if they've been tampered with.
[quote]Now, I have read MANY places that I just need to add the libEGL.dll, but this is appearently for people using the Visual Studio compiler, not MinGW.[/quote]Actually, this is for people using ANGLE, not OpenGL.
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[quote]Hi,
That sounds like an issue with your laptop, not with missing DLLs.
Try to get an app to run correctly from Qt Creator on that laptop first. Until you succeed in that, it's highly unlikely that any deployed application will work.Which version of Qt did you install on this laptop? (Is it Qt 5.2.1 for Windows 32-bit (MinGW 4.8, OpenGL, 634 MB)?)
What graphics card does it have?[/quote]
Qt 5.2.0, MinGW 4.8 32bit
Unsure about graphic cards
[quote]Are they the same brand + model of computers?[/quote]
No, one was a surface 10", the other a regular HP 15" laptop.[quote]These are false positives. Dependency Walker will always complain that these DLLs are missing, no matter what program you examine (even official Microsoft ones). Ignore the message, and delete these DLLs from your deployment folder. The only DLLs you need can all be found in your Qt installation (unless you link to 3rd-party libraries).
Also, it's generally a bad idea to download DLLs from unofficial Internet sources. You never know if they've been tampered with.[/quote]
Thank you. Fortunately I did not need the downloaded DLL's anyway on the working computer.[quote]Actually, this is for people using ANGLE, not OpenGL.[/quote]
Okay. I just saw that everyone else having this problem was using ANGLE and Visual Studio :)Sorry for not having more details about hardware, but I am not in control of those laptops anymore. A new one is to be bought, so lets hope the error doesn't occur there as well. Will notify you about success or failure.
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[quote author="wilhelmsen" date="1393314366"][quote]Hi,
That sounds like an issue with your laptop, not with missing DLLs.
Try to get an app to run correctly from Qt Creator on that laptop first. Until you succeed in that, it's highly unlikely that any deployed application will work.Which version of Qt did you install on this laptop? (Is it Qt 5.2.1 for Windows 32-bit (MinGW 4.8, OpenGL, 634 MB)?)
What graphics card does it have?[/quote]
Qt 5.2.0, MinGW 4.8 32bit
Unsure about graphic cards
[quote]Are they the same brand + model of computers?[/quote]
No, one was a surface 10", the other a regular HP 15" laptop.[/quote]The reason I asked about your graphics card and computer model is because parts of Qt require OpenGL 2.0 or higher. By default, Windows only ships with OpenGL 1.1, which will cause errors if you try to run a Qt application that needs OpenGL (although I don't know what the exact symptoms are).To overcome this, Qt provides an ANGLE option, to use DirectX instead of OpenGL.
