QtWebEngine application failed to run on windows xp but works on windows 7

[LinArcX]

Hi.
I compiled qt 5.5.0 on windows 7 via MSVC2013.(target -> Windows XP)

This is the qt5vars.cmd file that i invoked it first to prepare the environment:

CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
SET _ROOT=D:\myqt\5.5.0\source
SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%
SET QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2013
SET _ROOT=

And this is how i configure qt:

configure -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -opengl dynamic no-warnings-are-errors -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qt3d -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebkit -skip qtwebkit-examples -skip qtwayland -skip qtandroidextras -skip qtmacextras -skip qtx11extras -target xp -prefix "D:\myqt\5.5.0\install\msvc2013\32bit"

After successful compilation, i decided to compile qtwebengine module separately.

This is the content of qt5vars.cmd:

CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
REM ********** UPDATE INCLUDE & LIB TO SUPPORT XP WIN SDK 7.1A **********
SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin;%PATH%
SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include;%INCLUDE%
SET LIB=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Lib;%LIB%
SET CL=/D_USING_V120_SDK71_;%CL%
SET QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2013
SET _ROOT=D:\myqt\5.5.0\source
SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%
SET _ROOT=

Everything seems OK. After that i tried to compile the browser sample that located here:
qtwebengine\examples\webenginewidgets\browser

It compiled and run perfectly on windows 7.

But if i try to run it on windows xp i'll get these strange errors:(With help of DebugView)
https://gist.github.com/LinArcX/09aa86edf7848325b2b9589ac543e66b

Seems it tries to search for QtWebEngineProcess.exe in a wrong path:

QtWebEngineProcess not found at location D:/myqt/5.5.0/install/msvc2013/32bit/bin/QtWebEngineProcess.exe. Trying fallback path...

QtWebEngineProcess.exe exists beside application file in deployed directory.

[LinArcX]

@KH-219Design Thank you so much. problem fixed due to my testing on virtualBox machine. On real hardware everything works like a charm.

[LinArcX]

Is it because i compiled qt dynamically?

[LinArcX]

This is the output of dependency walker profiler:
https://gist.github.com/LinArcX/48fab610c34112e706bdac0e9711ad31

[KH-219Design]

There are some caveats to my advice, but hopefully some kind of advice is better than none!

Caveats: I do not use Windows, and I am using Qt 5.15.0.

In order to get a webengine-based application properly deployed using a Linux AppImage, I needed to use a qt.conf file as per: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-deploying.html

The important part was:

• At runtime, Qt WebEngine looks for the QtWebEngineProcess executable in the directory that QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::LibraryExecutablesPath) returns. For Qt installations, this is QTDIR/libexec (Linux) or QTDIR\bin (Windows). The path can be changed by defining a qt.conf file, for example. Alternatively, an executable path can be set as a value of the QTWEBENGINEPROCESS_PATH environment variable.

Because I am on Linux, I needed a qt.conf line such as:

LibraryExecutables = Qt/libexec

But since that documentation says that Windows uses "bin", I suppose you would use "Binaries" in place of "LibraryExecutables" (see: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt-conf.html )

[KH-219Design]

For completeness:

I am placing my qt.conf file side-by-side with my executable.

And the "Qt/libexec" path shown here:

LibraryExecutables = Qt/libexec

Is a relative path relative to "right there" where the executable and qt.conf file reside.

[LinArcX]

@KH-219Design Thank you so much. problem fixed due to my testing on virtualBox machine. On real hardware everything works like a charm.