How to deploy EXE to Windows XP

mark1215

Win7 + Qt Creator3.6.1 + Qt5.6

i use #windeployqt ***.exe deploy my application, it can run in Win7/ Win8/ Win10, but can not run in Window XP, i see Qt5.6 can deploy in Window XP, but i don't know how i can do.

VRonin

windeployqt just copies a bunch of libraries to the deployment folder, just copy the same files manually and it will work

Devopia53

@mark1215

See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-issues.html#windows-xp

mark1215

@Devopia53
any other way? compile qt source is so difficult,

i think it just lack some .dll files, or set some environment paras

jsulm

@mark1215 Which compiler do you use?

mark1215

@jsulm
Desktop Qt 5.6.0 MinGW 32bit

jsulm

@mark1215 Then you don't have to build Qt - the description in the link targets Visual Studio >= 2012 not MinGW

mark1215

@jsulm
then do you know what should i do? i think i should change some make paras or .pro paras,

jsulm

@mark1215 If I understand the problem correctly you cannot execute windeployqt.exe on Windows XP, right? You can do that on Windows >= 7 and check whether your application is working on Windows XP then. Or do you have to use windeployqt on XP?

Rondog

It sounds like the application 'windeployqt.exe' is compiled for a version not compatible with XP. There is a decent description of the problem (and a possible solution) here: http://www.tripleboot.org/?p=423

If you need to target WinXP with Qt 5.6.0 you should consider building from source on a WinXP machine. You will need a couple of configure options in this case or you will have problems:

configure <whatever options are required> -target xp -no-directwrite

Also, I found that when I tried to run 'configure' with Qt 5.6.0 on a WinXP machine to setup for building the Qt source I got the Not a Valid Application error. I altered the version information in the configure executable from 6.0 to 5.1 (see link for details) and this worked for me.

mark1215

@jsulm
maybe i can not description the problem, @Rondog has pointed out. i want compile a EXE with Win7+Qt Creator+Qt5.6+MinGW and it can run on WIN XP / WIN 7 / WIN 8 / WIN 10

i has solved. the point of problem is not 'windepolyqt.exe', it's ok,
the reason is that there are some source code of 'ffmpeg' in my application. i remove those source code, then the EXE can run on WIN XP.

this is my first card on Qt Forum, thanks for your reply @jsulm @Rondog