Running on Win 10 without IDE
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I built a QT application for Windows 10 (x64) using QT 5.8 in Visual Studio 2015 (using the VS plugins). The intention is to have a release that I can drop on any Windows 10 machine and just run it.
I can run the standalone application fine on the actual computer that built it, but after ironing-out all the missing DLLs and missing runtimes to be installed on Windows, I still get the following error:
failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in “”My program directory contains (I had to install Visual C++ Redistributable Runtime for Visual Studio 2015):
- programName.exe
- programName.exp
- programName.ilk
- programName.lib
- programName.pdb
- moc_predefs.h
- Qt5Chartsd.dll
- Qt5Cored.dll
- Qt5Cored.lib
- Qt5DataVisualizationd.dll
- Qt5Guid.dll
- Qt5Widgetsd.dll
- Qt5Widgetsd.lib
- msvcp140d.dll
- msvcp100.dll
- msvcr100.dll
- NLib.dll //3rd party library
- NMTLib.dll //3rd party library
- ucrtbased.dll
- vcruntime140d.dll
- vcomp100.dll
Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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Thanks @Wieland!
That link was unfortunately not enough .... I did all that and the same thing was happening.However, that thread did contain another link to QT documentation I didn't know about and that one did solve the problem:
http://wiki.qt.io/Deploy_an_Application_on_Windows
.... I used the "quick and dirty" version: not so great in terms of engineering, but it did solve the problem: what remains is refining out what is not necessary.Thanks!
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Thanks @Wieland!
That link was unfortunately not enough .... I did all that and the same thing was happening.However, that thread did contain another link to QT documentation I didn't know about and that one did solve the problem:
http://wiki.qt.io/Deploy_an_Application_on_Windows
.... I used the "quick and dirty" version: not so great in terms of engineering, but it did solve the problem: what remains is refining out what is not necessary.Thanks!