question about windeployqt.exe
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Hello
I'm pretty new to QT and have a question about windeployqt.exe. This app found all dependencies for one of my applications, so it starts fine.
Just for fun, I let it run over another application which already starts without problems on computers where qt is not installed. After this application finished it told me I would need the folder bearer with the file qgenericbearer.dll and the folder translations. For what are these files? It seems that windeployqt thinks I need them but the application is running without them too.
thanks in advance
AnnaTo create that, You need to open Qt command prompt,in that give windeployqt.exe.
And copy .exe file alone in one folder,go to that folder and run windeployqt.exe --quick . -
To create that, You need to open Qt command prompt,in that give windeployqt.exe.
And copy .exe file alone in one folder,go to that folder and run windeployqt.exe --quick .@Sowjanya thats what I did and then I discovered, that windeployed genereates more files than I seem to need and I'm wondering why and if there is a way only to get the files that I really need. From 60 files I deleted 51 files that it copied to my folder and the application is still running.
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@Sowjanya thats what I did and then I discovered, that windeployed genereates more files than I seem to need and I'm wondering why and if there is a way only to get the files that I really need. From 60 files I deleted 51 files that it copied to my folder and the application is still running.
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@DeveloperDeveloper35
To run exe file alone in other computers requires dlls . -
@Sowjanya The question was: why does windeployqt add DLLs which are not required/used by the application...
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@jsulm Thank you yes thats what I want to know. I tried my reduced set of files on another computer and it runs fine, so I need 51 files not but why are they collected by the tool
@DeveloperDeveloper35 I'm not sure. One possibility is that some of the DLLs your app is using use that one bearer DLL.
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@DeveloperDeveloper35 I'm not sure. One possibility is that some of the DLLs your app is using use that one bearer DLL.
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@jsulm But if this dll would be really used, then my software shouldn't work proper when I delete the dll. But it runs fine which indicates, that the dll is unused
@DeveloperDeveloper35 It depends. If a lib is loaded at runtime then your app can work without it as long as it is not used. This is how plug-ins work: the app is not linked at link time against the plug-ins, instead plug-ins are loaded at runtime dynamically.
