Trying to run default QT Plain C++ App -> -1073741515
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Hello,
complete newby here, I am using QT, version 5.9.1 for Windows. I installed it with the standard settings.
Then I created a "Plain C++ application" with the "Desktop Qt 5.9.1 MSVC2015 64bit" Kit (the only available one), which then creates a simple main.cpp:
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello World!" << endl; return 0; }When I then press Ctrl+R, a console window opens, but it only says, I should press Return to close the window, no Hello World.
In the output panel in QT I read:
Starting C:\Users\user\QTProjects\build-plainConsole-Desktop_Qt_5_9_1_MSVC2015_64bit-Debug\debug\plainConsole.exe... C:\Users\user\QTProjects\build-plainConsole-Desktop_Qt_5_9_1_MSVC2015_64bit-Debug\debug\plainConsole.exe exited with code -1073741515Which, as I already found out, implies, that some library is missing. Shouldn't QT have configured the necessary dependencies? What am I missing?
I already read here in the forum that some paths have to be added in the PATH environment variable. I do wonder, why the installer of QT did not add those, but anyway. I added the two bin paths, which I found in the Qt installation folder to the PATH environment variable, but it didn't change the outcome:
C:\Qt\5.9.1\msvc2015_64\bin C:\Qt\5.9.1\winrt_x64_msvc2017\binI am confused that not even the default project is running on its own after a plain Qt installation.
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@hskoglund said in Trying to run default QT Plain C++ App -> -1073741515:
P.S. No changes or editing of the PATH environment variable is needed for Qt to work.
Thats actually not always true, I for example had to add the MSVC Debugger manually for 5.9.1 in the project settings
@J.Hilk said in Trying to run default QT Plain C++ App -> -1073741515:
Thats actually not always true, I for example had to add the MSVC Debugger manually for 5.9.1 in the project settings
But for that you do not need PATH, right?
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@J.Hilk said in Trying to run default QT Plain C++ App -> -1073741515:
Thats actually not always true, I for example had to add the MSVC Debugger manually for 5.9.1 in the project settings
But for that you do not need PATH, right?
@jsulm Nope. you need to add the Windows(10) Kit binary folder to the Path variable
in my caseC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86
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@jsulm Nope. you need to add the Windows(10) Kit binary folder to the Path variable
in my caseC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86
@J.Hilk I'm not using Microsoft compiler, but can't you just add the absolute path to the debugger in QtCreator?
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@J.Hilk I'm not using Microsoft compiler, but can't you just add the absolute path to the debugger in QtCreator?
@jsulm said in Trying to run default QT Plain C++ App -> -1073741515:
@J.Hilk I'm not using Microsoft compiler, but can't you just add the absolute path to the debugger in QtCreator?
If I'm not mistaken, than changing /adding stuff in your path variable via Qt-Creators project settings
is exactly that. My global System PATH variable is unchanged.
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Hi,
well, as I said above, the ucrtbased.dll is not in my System32 folder, but in a subfolder in C:\Program Files(x86)\Windows Kits...
I also tried disabling my anti-virus program, but it didn't make a difference.
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Hi,
oh so many replies :)
So, yes I am using QTCreator. So, I have added the path to the x86 version of the ucrtbased.dll to the PATH variable in the System environment variables.
A little bit has changed, when doing so. When I run the .exe manually in a CMD window, now I get the error "0xc000007b".
IN QTCreator, though, I still get the same outcome, as before, although in the Project settings, I can see, that the Path to the ucrtbased.dll is also added.
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Hi,
oh so many replies :)
So, yes I am using QTCreator. So, I have added the path to the x86 version of the ucrtbased.dll to the PATH variable in the System environment variables.
A little bit has changed, when doing so. When I run the .exe manually in a CMD window, now I get the error "0xc000007b".
IN QTCreator, though, I still get the same outcome, as before, although in the Project settings, I can see, that the Path to the ucrtbased.dll is also added.
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Hi,
ok, so this took some time. Yesterday I found, that I had installed a mess of Microsoft and Windows SDKs and I thought, let's clean this up. So I uninstalled all those SDKs. Then I read the Qt documentation again and it says, that I should install a compiler as a requirement for Qt. One of the recommendations is to use Visual C++ build tools. So I have installed the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015.
Then I start Qt, but I cannot compile my plain c++ app in Debug mode, because Qt cannot find a debugger. After some investigation, I find, that the Visual C++ build tools 2015 do not contain a debugger. Why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?
So after somer further googling I find, that the Windows SDK comes with a debugger (the cdb.exe). So I install the Windows SDK. Now I have a debugger.
Then, when I tried compile my app in debug mode, I got this error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'So, for some reason, the place, where the rc.exe is, wasn't in my PATH. Added it, now finally, I can compile both the debug and the release version and run them without errors.
Man, I have to say, I haven't even written one line of code as of now, but I am already exhausted.
Thanks for all the help, though. Much appreciated.
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Hi,
ok, so this took some time. Yesterday I found, that I had installed a mess of Microsoft and Windows SDKs and I thought, let's clean this up. So I uninstalled all those SDKs. Then I read the Qt documentation again and it says, that I should install a compiler as a requirement for Qt. One of the recommendations is to use Visual C++ build tools. So I have installed the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015.
Then I start Qt, but I cannot compile my plain c++ app in Debug mode, because Qt cannot find a debugger. After some investigation, I find, that the Visual C++ build tools 2015 do not contain a debugger. Why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?
So after somer further googling I find, that the Windows SDK comes with a debugger (the cdb.exe). So I install the Windows SDK. Now I have a debugger.
Then, when I tried compile my app in debug mode, I got this error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'So, for some reason, the place, where the rc.exe is, wasn't in my PATH. Added it, now finally, I can compile both the debug and the release version and run them without errors.
Man, I have to say, I haven't even written one line of code as of now, but I am already exhausted.
Thanks for all the help, though. Much appreciated.
@ghost23 jup, run into exatcly the same issue.
But the advantage of the MSVC compiler is, that it's about 5 times faster (on Windows) than mingw, so you'll have that time back in a couple of weeks :)You should set the topic to solved, if you managed to solve your problem :p
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Hi,
ok, so this took some time. Yesterday I found, that I had installed a mess of Microsoft and Windows SDKs and I thought, let's clean this up. So I uninstalled all those SDKs. Then I read the Qt documentation again and it says, that I should install a compiler as a requirement for Qt. One of the recommendations is to use Visual C++ build tools. So I have installed the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015.
Then I start Qt, but I cannot compile my plain c++ app in Debug mode, because Qt cannot find a debugger. After some investigation, I find, that the Visual C++ build tools 2015 do not contain a debugger. Why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?
So after somer further googling I find, that the Windows SDK comes with a debugger (the cdb.exe). So I install the Windows SDK. Now I have a debugger.
Then, when I tried compile my app in debug mode, I got this error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'So, for some reason, the place, where the rc.exe is, wasn't in my PATH. Added it, now finally, I can compile both the debug and the release version and run them without errors.
Man, I have to say, I haven't even written one line of code as of now, but I am already exhausted.
Thanks for all the help, though. Much appreciated.
@ghost23 "I cannot compile my plain c++ app in Debug mode" - you don't need a debugger to build in debug mode. You only need it if you want to debug.
"Why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?" - it is: http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugger-engines.html
