How to get standalone deployment of Qt5 Application / Gamma Ray / Windows

brycegbrazen

Hi all,

I'm trying to use windeployqt.exe to create a standalone deployment of Gamma Ray.

I ran windeployqt.exe and passed the gammaray-launcher.exe as the file positional argument and I saw new files appear in the install directory, but when I try to double click the gammaray-launcher.exe afterwards, I still get errors like the following screenshots:

Is there something else I need to do for Gamma Ray to know how to find these bundled .dll files? I'm pretty new to building C++ projects so I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

For additional context:

I installed Qt using the Qt Online Installer, and installed to C:\Qt515. I installed the MSVC 2019 64-Bit package for Qt 5.15.2, and that is located at C:\Qt515\5.15.2\msvc2019_64.
As a workaround, I noticed that if I run a shell and set the PATH to include both: C:\Qt515\5.15.2\msvc2019_64\bin
C:\Qt515\5.15.2\msvc2019_64\lib
I can run gammaray-launcher.exe successfully from that shell. However, I want to be able to just double-click the gammaray-launcher.exe in the File Explorer (without having to use a shell).

jsulm

@brycegbrazen said in How to get standalone deployment of Qt5 Application / Gamma Ray / Windows:

gammaray-launcher.exe

Is this the actual Qt application or just a launcher which starts the actual application?

brycegbrazen

@jsulm,

I'm not too familiar with the architecture of Gamma Ray, but from what I can tell looking at the code, gammaray-launcher.exe is just the launcher that starts the application.

The code creates a launcher window, shows the window, and execs the QApplication.

brycegbrazen

Reflagging this as I haven't heard back in a while.