Qt Creator startup problem in Windows 10

tapQt · wrote on 29 Jul 2016, 12:26

I'm having problem running Qt creator in windows 10. I've tried using "-noload Welcome" and turning off windows firewall. I don't have any anti virus installed. All other Qt programs(Qt Designer/Qt Linguist etc) are running fine. How do I get to running logs for Qt creator? If I can get to log I might be able to see if there is any issue. Please suggest.

SGaist · wrote on 29 Jul 2016, 22:38

Hi and welcome to devnet,

What problems are you getting ?

You can see all the start options from Qt Creator when you add --help to the parameters.

tapQt · wrote on 29 Jul 2016, 22:52

No Screen is showing up. I don't see any instance in Task Manager. I was wondering if I can get to the logs what is terminating Qt

hskoglund · wrote on 30 Jul 2016, 02:01

Hi, you could try launching Qt Creator from Dependency Walker (first open qtcreator.exe from Dependency Walker and then press F7 to profile it). That will hopefully give you a trace of what DLLs are ioaded and where it crashes.

tapQt · wrote on 31 Jul 2016, 23:04

Thanks for your suggestion. I did get some dll load(windows dll load) error but I get that error for some other application as well which runs fine. I have never used dependency walker so not sure if I did the setup correctly.

hskoglund · wrote on 1 Aug 2016, 03:55

Ok, Qt Creator needs the MSVC 2013 dlls, sometimes they're missing in WIndows 10, try to install them

tapQt · wrote on 2 Aug 2016, 01:20

I have tried that but still not starting up.

hskoglund · 8 Feb 2016, 18:24

Hmm, maybe some plugin is causing trouble, try starting Qt Creator with just the bare bones Core plugin:
qtcreator -noload all -load Core

tapQt · wrote on 3 Aug 2016, 02:02

Yep. It worked. I guess I now can load one by one and see which one is failing. Thank you very much.

tapQt · wrote on 4 Aug 2016, 03:29

I guess the problematic dlls are:
Welcome.dll
QmlProfilerExtension.dll
QmlProfiler.dll
QmlDesigner.dll

Since below command works/ brings up Qt creator
qtcreator -noload Welcome -noload QmlProfilerExtension -noload QmlProfiler -noload QmlDesigner

There is a general message though:
Running Windows Runtime device detection.
No winrtrunner.exe found.

I am running below version:
Qt Creator 4.0.3
Based on Qt 5.7.0 (MSVC 2013, 32 bit)
Built on Jul 5 2016 01:09:09
From revision ce4ddcb060

hskoglund · wrote on 4 Aug 2016, 03:41

Hi, judging from that list of "no-show" plugins I'm guessing the culprit is OpenGL-related.
Try updating your video driver...

tapQt · wrote on 5 Aug 2016, 12:19

You are absolutely right. I disabled my graphics driver and Qt creator starts with no error. I am not able to update my graphics driver yet, but I'm sure I'll find a way. At least I know the root cause. Thanks for helping me out.

Hossein_IENT · wrote on 28 Feb 2017, 16:42

Hey @hskoglund

I have also the same problem as @tapQt . I would like to compile meshlab_mini.pro code which is produce a simple/limited version of Meshlab (https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab). I'm using QTCreator 4.2.1, QT 5.7 (just checked QT 5.7 in installation procedure because the could should be compiled with Qp 5.7), MSVC 2015, 32 bit.
When I try to open "meshlab-mini.pro" I get the following error:

Running Windows Runtime device detection.
No winrtrunner.exe found.
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: script
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: script
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: script
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: script

I have updated my graphic card driver and even have disabled them (as @tapQt mentioned) but the problem is still remaining. Do you have any idea how to solve that problem?

Thanks :)

SGaist · wrote on 28 Feb 2017, 16:49

Hi and welcome to devnet,

It's not the same problem.

That project requires the QtScript module which has been removed since 5.6. You first have to build and install it in order to build that application with Qt >= 5.6