Problems Compiling QML app in Visual Studio
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I am able to run the program fine if I run it out of Visual Studio (except the fonts change), but when I go into the release or debug folder and try to run the .exe file without Visual Studio I get an error:
The program can't start because QtDeclarative4.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Any ideas?
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You should put this library near your .exe or put path to folder with it in PATH env variable.
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You must copy QtDeclarative4.dll (and at least QtCore4.dll and QtGui4.dll and probably some others) to the release folder.
You can use depends.exe downloadable from http://www.dependencywalker.com/ to find out which DLLs are needed by your application and by the DLLs that it needs.
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Where can I find the .dll files I need?
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Forgive my newbie questions but how do I go about linking those files in Visual Studio 2008?
Also any ideas for how to get the fonts to look the same as they do where I developed them in OS X?
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Perhaps we need a wiki about libraries being in PATH or including them with the app in a redistributable form.
As for the fonts: Qt tries to use system font by default (to give native look among other things). This includes font face, size and (quite importantly) anti-aliasing.
If you want to override the system font, you should pick the font you want to use manually in your application. If you've already done this, you might be referring to anti-aliasing then? -
I have picked the font manually in QML. Arial Bold for everything, but every font appears about 2x the size in the windows exe.
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Have you changed "font.pixelSize":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qml-textinput.html#font.pixelSize-prop or "font.pointSize":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qml-textinput.html#font.pointSize-prop for your elements?
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font.pixelSize, do you I have to go through and change them all?
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I fixed the font issue but I am still having problems running the .exe. I put all the .dll files in the release folder and now when I run the .exe I get a blank window. Any ideas?
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I don't think so, it still works great if I run it through Visual Studio, it only gives me the blank window when I try to run the .exe straight from the release folder. Very frustrating.
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kyleplattner, where does you qml located? if you just have it in sources and use relative path to it when you should check that this relative paths are ok relatively to exe file.
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All of my QML files are in the same directory as my main.cpp along with the release and debug folders.
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kyleplattner, place them in one folder with .exe.
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Dennis, I followed your advice and it worked. Everything is in the same folder and it runs. Now how can I send the .exe off to management and get it to run on their machines.