Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Get Qt Extensions
  • Unsolved
Collapse
Brand Logo
  1. Home
  2. Qt Development
  3. General and Desktop
  4. Error "The procedure entry point CreateEvent could not be located" during installation of Qt C++ application on Windows 10
Forum Updated to NodeBB v4.3 + New Features

Error "The procedure entry point CreateEvent could not be located" during installation of Qt C++ application on Windows 10

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Unsolved General and Desktop
33 Posts 7 Posters 7.7k Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • hskoglundH hskoglund

    Another indication that the screenshot is from a Windows 7 PC: that error dialog "... - Entry Point Not Found" still gave you information about which .dll that failed to export that symbol (i.e. api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll)

    But Windows 10 (and Windows 11 etc.) instead, for the same error, states which file (usually an .exe) that failed to import the symbol. So if this really was a Windows 10 desktop, the error message should have been:
    "The procedure entry point CreateEventW could not be located in the dynamic link library Elab_license_otp.exe"

    BTW: I think this is regression since it still says: "dynamic link library" :-(

    T Offline
    T Offline
    Tusharn
    wrote on last edited by
    #19

    @hskoglund Yes sir i installed the application on windows 7 and after installation i got this error when i run the application and also i did it on windows 10 but getting same error.

    JonBJ 1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • hskoglundH Offline
      hskoglundH Offline
      hskoglund
      wrote on last edited by
      #20

      Could you post a screenshot of that error from the Windows 10 PC?

      T 2 Replies Last reply
      0
      • hskoglundH hskoglund

        Could you post a screenshot of that error from the Windows 10 PC?

        T Offline
        T Offline
        Tusharn
        wrote on last edited by
        #21

        @hskoglund No sir i will post

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • T Tusharn

          @hskoglund Yes sir i installed the application on windows 7 and after installation i got this error when i run the application and also i did it on windows 10 but getting same error.

          JonBJ Offline
          JonBJ Offline
          JonB
          wrote on last edited by
          #22

          @Tusharn said in Error "The procedure entry point CreateEvent could not be located" during installation of Qt C++ application on Windows 10:

          @hskoglund Yes sir i installed the application on windows 7 and after installation i got this error when i run the application and also i did it on windows 10 but getting same error.

          I no longer understand. Your first post states "during the installation process on the target Windows 10 machine", your screenshot (according to @hskoglund) shows Windows 7, and now you seem to say you did install on Windows 7 after all. It is difficult to be sure what you are saying.

          At this point you need to:

          • Write the absolute minimal Qt program, 10 lines long.
          • Build for Release.
          • Use windeployqt to create an installable image.
          • Install on a Windows 10+ machine, preferably one which has not been upgraded from Windows 7.
          • And if possible install on more than one machine, to rule out something on that machine being the issue.

          You can see that people are running out of useful ideas to help. You can Google for

          The procedure entry point CreateEventW could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll

          as I have done, there are a couple of hits.

          If your development machine runs the same Windows version as the one with that error you could find where api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll is on both machines, compare the date/size/versions of those two, run Dependencies on both to see if the "bad" one is missing dependency.

          T 1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • JonBJ JonB

            @Tusharn said in Error "The procedure entry point CreateEvent could not be located" during installation of Qt C++ application on Windows 10:

            @hskoglund Yes sir i installed the application on windows 7 and after installation i got this error when i run the application and also i did it on windows 10 but getting same error.

            I no longer understand. Your first post states "during the installation process on the target Windows 10 machine", your screenshot (according to @hskoglund) shows Windows 7, and now you seem to say you did install on Windows 7 after all. It is difficult to be sure what you are saying.

            At this point you need to:

            • Write the absolute minimal Qt program, 10 lines long.
            • Build for Release.
            • Use windeployqt to create an installable image.
            • Install on a Windows 10+ machine, preferably one which has not been upgraded from Windows 7.
            • And if possible install on more than one machine, to rule out something on that machine being the issue.

            You can see that people are running out of useful ideas to help. You can Google for

            The procedure entry point CreateEventW could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll

            as I have done, there are a couple of hits.

            If your development machine runs the same Windows version as the one with that error you could find where api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll is on both machines, compare the date/size/versions of those two, run Dependencies on both to see if the "bad" one is missing dependency.

            T Offline
            T Offline
            Tusharn
            wrote on last edited by
            #23

            @JonB Thanks sir i will try as you said

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • hskoglundH hskoglund

              Could you post a screenshot of that error from the Windows 10 PC?

              T Offline
              T Offline
              Tusharn
              wrote on last edited by
              #24

              @hskoglund
              Hello
              As you said PF screenshot of error getting on windows 10 pc , where as file mention in error is available in directory.

              90ae0e39-fce9-4509-9b4f-099bbe5cb229-image.png

              JonBJ 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • T Tusharn

                @hskoglund
                Hello
                As you said PF screenshot of error getting on windows 10 pc , where as file mention in error is available in directory.

                90ae0e39-fce9-4509-9b4f-099bbe5cb229-image.png

                JonBJ Offline
                JonBJ Offline
                JonB
                wrote on last edited by JonB
                #25

                @Tusharn
                While it is true that I cannot spot why you get this error message given the directory's contents, this is a quite different error message from the one you said you get, you show at the top and we have been discussing throughout this topic. Why are you now getting a different message if you said Win 10 gave you the original message? Is this a different Win 10 machine from the one you said produced the first error? It is difficult to help when you report one thing and then show something different.....

                It is possible that you could get the latest error message if the named DLL is missing one of its dependencies. You might like to load up the Windows Dependencies tool to examine this.

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • hskoglundH Offline
                  hskoglundH Offline
                  hskoglund
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #26

                  Hi, just guessing but that missing dll error can occur if your app for example starts a printout and that Windows 10 PC has a older (perhaps not Qt) installation of MinGW that lacks libgcc_s_seh-1.dll and that other MinGW is in ithe path environment variable.

                  To check, try building a simple app, say the Calculator Example using your MinGW 6.5.1. Then use the same windeployqt procedure you did for Elab_license_otp.exe and try the Calculator app on that Windows 10 PC.

                  T 1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • hskoglundH hskoglund

                    Hi, just guessing but that missing dll error can occur if your app for example starts a printout and that Windows 10 PC has a older (perhaps not Qt) installation of MinGW that lacks libgcc_s_seh-1.dll and that other MinGW is in ithe path environment variable.

                    To check, try building a simple app, say the Calculator Example using your MinGW 6.5.1. Then use the same windeployqt procedure you did for Elab_license_otp.exe and try the Calculator app on that Windows 10 PC.

                    T Offline
                    T Offline
                    Tusharn
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #27

                    @hskoglund now i am run application on windows 7 & 10. I tried as you said but getting same error.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • hskoglundH Offline
                      hskoglundH Offline
                      hskoglund
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #28

                      If you try the same Calculator example app again, but this time built with Qt 6.4.3 MSVC2019, do you get the same error?

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • M Offline
                        M Offline
                        MaxKozak
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #29

                        I wrote application on windows 11 and find way to deploy it correctly, but on windows 7 this app doesn’t work and go to same error as yours. I try to reinstall dlls, sfc /scan, Visual Redistributable but still nothing. I try this app on windows 10 if it works

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • hskoglundH Offline
                          hskoglundH Offline
                          hskoglund
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #30

                          Qt 6.4.3 MSVC 2019 or Qt 6.5.1 MinGW do not support deploying to Windows 7 :-(
                          Qt6 requirements here

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • T Offline
                            T Offline
                            Tusharn
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #31

                            Anyone tell me which version of qt creator is stable for windows or suitable for windows 10

                            JonBJ 1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • T Tusharn

                              Anyone tell me which version of qt creator is stable for windows or suitable for windows 10

                              JonBJ Offline
                              JonBJ Offline
                              JonB
                              wrote on last edited by JonB
                              #32

                              @Tusharn
                              Are you really asking about Qt Creator version here? Do you understand that it is the Qt version, nothing to do with Creator, which determines whether your application will or won't run under Windows 7, 10 or whatever? So far as I know any version of Creator will run under Windows 10.

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              1
                              • T Offline
                                T Offline
                                Tusharn
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #33

                                Thanks to all for support and your valuable suggestions.
                                I am successfully made executable file using (Qt creator 5.9.5) compiler version (Mingw 5.3.0) using windeployqt.

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                0

                                • Login

                                • Login or register to search.
                                • First post
                                  Last post
                                0
                                • Categories
                                • Recent
                                • Tags
                                • Popular
                                • Users
                                • Groups
                                • Search
                                • Get Qt Extensions
                                • Unsolved