Deployment on Windows will not run, no error, no idea, help!?!
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Hello. I am new to Qt and trying to create a Windows deployment. I started here...
http://wiki.qt.io/Deploy_an_Application_on_WindowsI am building an ESRI ArcGIS 100.2.1 QML based app which uses MSVC2017 on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7. The application builds and runs fine within Qt Creator.
I tried the "Quick and dirty" section of the above deployment instructions and when I double click my exe, I get nothing. I don't even see a glimpse of a window or app start up. My mouse cursor just briefly changes, then nothing. The path of the bin/plugins/qml files and folders are slightly different than the instructions in "Quick and dirty" as I used the folders specific to MSVC2017. So I coped from the following to the location of my deployment folder where my exe is...
C:\Qt\5.10.0\msvc2017_64Anyway....how can I troubleshoot this? Any help is appreciated. Let me know if any more info would help. Thanks!
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Hi and welcome to devnet,
What about using windeployqt ?
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Yeah, I tried windeployqt too. Same result. I did see that warning at the top about VCINSTALLDIR. I tried setting that within my command prompt session to the following...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VCThen rerunning windeployqt the warning went away, but still same result. I'm not 100% if the above path is what I should have set it to or if the warning even really matters. Attached is a screenshot...
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Looks like you are using QML but you don't use the
--qmldiroption so you won't have the proper QML dependencies deployed. -
Looks like you are using QML but you don't use the
--qmldiroption so you won't have the proper QML dependencies deployed.@SGaist thanks for that tip. I reran passing the qmldir option and same result. Still the app doesn't load. I guess it doesn't surprise me though since the "Quick and dirty" method suggested copying the QML directory manually, which I did then, and still no go. Attached is a screen shot of the command I ran and I redirected the output to a log file (had to since it was too much to include in just one screen shot). Thanks so much for helping.
I'll try attaching the log file shortly. It is giving me a permissions error at the moment. Maybe I have to make a 2nd post. -
That warning could explain why it's not working.
Did you try to deploy using Visual Studio command prompt ?
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Actually, previously I had not. Thanks for that tip. I am learning as I go :)
But now I have run the same commands from "Developer command prompt for VS", and the warning goes away. But still to no avail. Executing my EXE does nothing. No window or error. I still don't have permissions to upload the entire log file here, so I'll add a couple screen shots. First one is beginning of log, second is end of log.
This is my deploy directory afterwards...
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Qt5Test.dll ? That's fishy... This is not a module that should be used in anything else that tests.
What I would do first is just try to deploy a default QWidget application, once that done and working, I'd go for a default QtQuick application just to be sure the procedure goes as expected.
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Thanks for the help on this. Ultimately doing the QtQuick app and seeing that it worked, led me down a path searching for what was missing that was required by the ArcGIS templated project. Even though dependency walker didn't find anything and I did not see any documentation on ESRI's site about dependencies, I was able to slowly work my way through what looked like missing DLLs and once I had them included, the app loaded.
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Thanks for the help on this. Ultimately doing the QtQuick app and seeing that it worked, led me down a path searching for what was missing that was required by the ArcGIS templated project. Even though dependency walker didn't find anything and I did not see any documentation on ESRI's site about dependencies, I was able to slowly work my way through what looked like missing DLLs and once I had them included, the app loaded.
@JrDeskJockey if your issue is solved, please don't forget to mark your post as such. Thanks.
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Glad you found out !
Can you share what was missing ?
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Sure. I had to visually compare a samples app from ESRI and copy over what I thought was missing. This is what worked for me.....including these additional files...
C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS SDKs\Qt100.2.1\sdk\windows\x64\bin\release\EsriCommonQt.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS SDKs\Qt100.2.1\sdk\windows\x64\bin\release\runtimecore.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS SDKs\Qt100.2.1\sdk\windows\x64\bin\release\ArcGISRuntimeToolkitCppApi.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64\msvcp140.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64\vcruntime140.dll
C:\Qt\5.10.0\msvc2017_64\bin*.dll -
Thanks !
