Qt on VS 2017: Link DLLs at Runtime

alexCali

Hello everyone,

I just started using Qt on VS today and I am running into a small issue.
I can build my solution with no problems, both in Debug and Release mode 64-bit, but when I try to run it I get run time errors.
The errors are all related about not finding DLL files at run time such as Qt5Widgets.dll and Qt5Core.dll.

How can I fix this issue properly? I have done some research and people suggest to copy these DLL files in the folder of where the .exe is created. Are there any other approaches I can use? For example changing some settings in the projects?

Thank you everyone for your help and tips.

Bests,
Rosario

yuvaram

Hi @alexCali
This type of question already discussed and solved
Please refer Executable Creation

alexCali

Thank you for your reply however I don't think that solves my issue.
I need to be able to run my application from within Visual Studio.
So, when I press F5 on Visual Studio I need to be able to debug my application.

Any hints on how to do it on Visual Studio and not on Qt Creator?

jackmack

I use Qt 5.9.3 with VS2017 on win7, 64bit.
My app is compiled as 32bit.

I create a .vcxproj file via qmake from my .pro file.
VS2017 is started about a .bat containing following:

@echo off
echo **********************************************************
echo ** Setting up environment VS2017 for Qt 5.9.3 (x86) usage 
echo **********************************************************
echo ...
call C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"Microsoft Visual Studio"\2017\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat
devenv /useenv

Additionally I have set the environment variable QTDIR=C:\Qt\Qt5.9.3\5.9.3\msvc2015 and add it to PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%PATH%

This allows me to start any Qt 5.9.3 based app from anywhere on my computer.

Cheers

alexCali

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alexCali

@jackmack Are you also able to debug your Qt Application using VS 2017 and its Debugger?