qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "%QTLIB%\plugins\platforms"

Christian Ehrlicher

As you can see you're mixing debug and release plugins. Make sure there is qwindowsd.dll in C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/

hskoglund

@Christian-Ehrlicher Qt 5.14.0 has abolished the "d"-suffix for MinGW (it remains for MSVC) (see for example https://forum.qt.io/topic/109779/windeployqt-exe-comes-with-qt-5-14-not-copy-the-dlls-to-the-app-directory

haitam

@Christian-Ehrlicher I only have one qwindows.dll file in C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/ , if I should have another version and/or multiple versions where can I find them ?

hskoglund

In Qt 5.14.0 MinGW uses the same qwindows.dll both for debug and release builds, so you only having one qwindows.dll is correct.

But that error message "... incompatible Qt library (5.14.0) ..." means that Qt5Core.dll is built with another version of Qt (not 5.14.0).

Could you check where your Qt5Core.dll is loaded from?

haitam

@hskoglund I'm not sure how I can check where is it loaded from, I have the following in my system env path C:\Qt\Qt5.14.0\5.14.0\mingw73_64\bin which contains Qt5Core.dll

hskoglund

How did you install your Qt 5.14.0, did you use the online installer or the offline installer?

haitam

@hskoglund I used the offline installer

hskoglund

Ok. In your system env path, is C:\Qt\Qt5.14.0\5.14.0\mingw73_64\bin the first entry?

Also, you could check for the presence of Qt5Core.dll and Qt5Cored.dll in your C:, for example, try:

cd \
dir Qt5core.dll/a/s
dir Qt5Cored.dll/a/s

maybe there's a Qt5Core.dll (or Qt5Cored.dll) that is for a Qt version earlier than 5.14.0 that's hiding somewhere...

haitam

@hskoglund All QtCore.dll and QtCored.dll files in Qt directory are for the same version 5.14.0, every other QtCore.dll file in C: belongs to other programs I have in my computer.

haitam

@hskoglund Restarting my computer after moving C:\Qt\Qt5.14.0\5.14.0\mingw73_64\bin to be the first entry (it wasn't before) solved the problem, now I can see the application's window, yet I get the following output (which I'm not sure if it's an error):

Warning: QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO is deprecated. Instead use:
   QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR to enable platform plugin controlled per-screen factors.
   QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS to set per-screen DPI.
   QT_SCALE_FACTOR to set the application global scale factor.
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll"
"Failed to extract plugin meta data from 'C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll'"
         not a plugin
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qdirect2d.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qdirect2d.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "direct2d"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWindowsDirect2DIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("direct2d")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qminimal.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qminimal.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "minimal"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QMinimalIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimal")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qoffscreen.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qoffscreen.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "offscreen"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QOffscreenIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("offscreen")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwebgl.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwebgl.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "webgl"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWebGLIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("webgl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "windows"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWindowsIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("windows")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/platforms"
...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll"
"Failed to extract plugin meta data from 'C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll'"
         not a plugin
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qdirect2d.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ("direct2d")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qminimal.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ("minimal")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qoffscreen.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ("offscreen")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwebgl.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ("webgl")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ("windows")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug/platforms" ...
loaded library "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll"
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll"
"Failed to extract plugin meta data from 'C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/libEGL.dll'"
         not a plugin
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qdirect2d.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ()
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qminimal.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ()
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qoffscreen.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ()
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwebgl.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ()
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll"
Got keys from plugin meta data ()
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/platformthe
mes" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platformthemes" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platformthemes/qxdgdesktopportal.d
ll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platformthemes/qxdgdesktopportal.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformThemeFactoryInterface.5.1",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "xdgdesktopportal",
            "flatpak",
            "snap"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QXdgDesktopPortalThemePlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("xdgdesktopportal", "flatpak", "snap")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug/platformthemes" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/styles" ...

QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/styles" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/styles/qwindowsvistastyle.dll"
Found metadata in lib C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/styles/qwindowsvistastyle.dll, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QStyleFactoryInterface",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "windowsvista"
        ]
    },
    "archreq": 0,
    "className": "QWindowsVistaStylePlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 331264
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("windowsvista")
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug/styles" ...
loaded library "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/styles/qwindowsvistastyle.dll"
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/accessible"
 ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/accessible" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug/accessible" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/accessibleb
ridge" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/accessiblebridge" ...

QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "C:/Users/haita/Documents/QtProjects/test_cmake/cmake-build-deb
ug/accessiblebridge" ...
QLibraryPrivate::unload succeeded on "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/styles/qwindowsvistastyle.dll"
QLibraryPrivate::unload succeeded on "C:/Qt/Qt5.14.0/5.14.0/mingw73_64/plugins/platforms/qwindows.dll"

hskoglund

Think you're fine now, all that "QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader()...." output is because you turned on plugin tracing, removing that env. variable QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 should fix it.

haitam

@hskoglund Okay. Thank you that was really helpful!