Windows deploy failure

ambershark

@Masonsu said in QT Windows deploy failure:

I also search this pagelink textSince my Dependency Walker picture above is 64bit version, now I also try the 32bit Dependency Walker in my 64bit system, it output with nothing wrong, does it make any difference?

The bit depth of dependency walker doesn't matter. You can use 32 or 64 bit for your application.

What I do in this situation is put it together manually. Create a directory, put your exe in it. Run your exe and it will pop up with a message box saying something like "your app needs xxx.dll to run". Copy that dll into your directory and run again. It will show the next one. Keep doing this until your application starts.

Oh and in order to do this you have to make sure you don't have your mingw dlls or your Qt dlls in your PATH or they will auto detect and run. If you don't want to remove them from the path what you can do is use another system (preferably a virtual machine or one without any development stuff installed) and copy your exe there, then supporting dlls as prompted.

This is the long way to do this and something that should automatically be done by windeployqt. But in cases where I've had issues, this is a tried and true approach that I use. If you can make it run on a fresh windows VM without and development stuff installed, it will definitely run on an end user's PC. :)

Masonsu

@ambershark
I tried as you said, I remove the Qt from the PATH, the program works well in my computer now, but fails on another computer , the exception point to Qt5Core.dll ,Since it is a release version, I don't know how to debug it.

SGaist

What Qt modules are you using in this application ?

ambershark

@Masonsu My guess is you don't have the platform plugins.

Most dlls it will tell you but for plugins (especially platform) it just crashes a lot.

In your main directory create directories plugins/platforms and then put the appropriate platform libs in there. I don't remember what they are for windows off the top of my head. They will be in /your/qt/path/plugins/platforms. If you have issues copy everything from that dir into your new one.

Lastly if you still have issues, you can use a qt.conf file in your application directory to tell it where your plugins are.. create a text file qt.conf that looks like:

[Paths]
Plugins = plugins

Masonsu

@ambershark said in QT Windows deploy failure:

qt.conf

I am sorry , I tried as you said, but it failed again. Here is my pro file
#-------------------------------------------------

Project created by QtCreator 2016-11-21T21:11:16

#-------------------------------------------------

QT += core gui network sql multimedia

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = client
TEMPLATE = app

unix:LIBS += -L/usr/local/lib -lprotobuf
win32:INCLUDEPATH = E:/mingw/msys/1.0/local/include
win32:LIBS = -LE:/mingw/msys/1.0/local/lib -lprotobuf

SOURCES += main.cpp
mainwindow.cpp
login.cpp
usertr.pb.cpp
socket.cpp
chatlog.cpp
chattab.cpp
sendfile.cpp
qchat.cpp
useinfo.cpp
dbmanager.cpp
filewidget.cpp
newgroup.cpp
groupchat.cpp
newgroupmember.cpp

HEADERS += mainwindow.h
login.h
usertr.pb.h
socket.h
chatlog.h
chattab.h
sendfile.h
qchat.h
useinfo.h
dbmanager.h
filewidget.h
newgroup.h
helper.h
groupchat.h
newgroupmember.h

FORMS +=
chatlog.ui
chattab.ui
filewidget.ui
groupchat.ui
login.ui
mainwindow.ui
newgroup.ui
newgroupmember.ui
useinfo.ui

RESOURCES +=
icons.qrc

DISTFILES +=

the protobuf library was complied by MinGw4.9.2 32bit and it is a static library
Now I am guessing that something is wrong with my code but it works normally on my Development machine, it is so strange

ambershark

@Masonsu I highly doubt it's your code. I've seen this many times before. We'll get it figured out. :)

Ok so if you could show me a directory listing of your application's directory and all sub dirs. Using a command prompt you could do:

cd /your/path
dir /s /a > dirlist.txt

Then post that dirlist.txt file here. Also show me the contents of your qt.conf file if you made one.

Also you shouldn't need the mingw includepath or libs path. If those need to be set in the .pro file that is already a problem, in my opinion, for your build. Especially since they are hardcoded to only work on your system. But that isn't what's causing the issue, that is just for your information later on to make your build better. It should work on any system without having to change the pro file or having things in certain directories to mirror yours.

Masonsu

@ambershark
Hi, ambershark, Thanks for your answer

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2017/03/28 11:36 23,651 client.pro.user
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ambershark

@Masonsu Sorry I meant the directory for your application that you are distributing. The one that goes on the machine that isn't working.

I need to see if you have the right dlls/file names/dir structure, etc.

Masonsu

@ambershark @SGaist @hskoglund
I am sorry for that, it is nothing wrong with deployment but with my code.
I check my code again and found something wrong. I use illegal index of a QList after I login successfully, it crashes the deployment version, but it doesn't crash when I run it from QtCreator, here is the code

UseInfo::UseInfo(QWidget *parent) :
    QWidget(parent),
    ui(new Ui::UseInfo),
    sqldb(new DbManager()),
    username(Socket::username)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    QStringList qlist;
    for (int i = 1960; i < 2016; ++i)
        qlist.append(QString::number(i));
    ui->yearComboBox->addItems(qlist);
    qlist.clear();
    for (int i = 1; i < 13; ++i)
        qlist.append(QString::number(i));
    ui->monthComboBox->addItems(qlist);
    qlist.clear();
    for (int i = 1; i < 32; ++i)
        qlist.append(QString::number(i));
    ui->dayComboBox->addItems(qlist);

    sqldb->insertName(username);
    QList<QString> list = sqldb->readInfo(username);
    avatar = list[0];
    gender = list[1];
    year = list[2];
    month = list[3];
    day = list[4];
    job = list[5];
    phone = list[6];
    email = list[7];
    address = list[8];
    hobby = list[9];

    setIcon(avatar);

    setUseinfo();
}

so before assign the value to my class member variable, I need to check if the list is empty
thanks for all your reply

SGaist

Are you sure that readInfo returns 10 values ?

By the way, why return a QStringList rather than an object that represent these info ?

Masonsu

@SGaist said in QT Windows deploy failure:

Are you sure that readInfo returns 10 values ?
By the way, why return a QStringList rather than an object that represent these info ?

NO, so I said that I need to check that if list is empty, after I added if (!list.empty()), everything runs well
To the second quesion, maybe my design is not good, I didn't think too much, sorry for my poor English

ambershark

@Masonsu Good to hear this is fixed. And your english is great. :)