Resolving DLLs
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I've concluded that manifests and configuration files are beyond my mortal brain. So, I've settled on two options for telling my QT utilities where to find their DLLs:
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Put the QT bin folder into the PATH variable, or
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Wrap the QT utility in a batch file, which has the QT bin folder in its PATH variable
The advantage of the 2nd option, of course, is to not pollute my path variable. Am I being too nit picky to be considering the 2nd option? Does anyone have other suggestions?
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You're talking about Windows? And about a development machine?
Just use the cmd.exe link provided by Qt installation - it has everything set up by default IIRC. Putting Qt into PATH is perfectly OK, too.
There is also a tool called qtchooser, but I'm not sure if it works on Windows.
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@sierdzio Thank you, yes, this is a Windows development machine. I am looking in the folder
C:\systems\QT\5.12.5\msvc2017_64\binbut do not see a cmd.exe . Maybe I did not opt for it when paring down the installation process. No matter. Thanks for the feedback on the PATH variable.
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@normvcr said in Resolving DLLs:
but do not see a cmd.exe .
I think it's added to start menu on Windows, but maybe I misremember something.
In any case, you can run regular cmd.exe and execute qtenv2.bat from bin/ folder.
