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  • MegamouseM Offline
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    Megamouse
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    #1

    Hi,

    Is it possible to move all the qt specific files like the imageformats, platforms and bearer folders as well as the Qt dlls into a subdirectory (e.g. qt_files) on deploy? Our users have to deal with other subdirectories frequently and the abundancy of (for them useless) qt files is making the application dir look a bit messy.

    Thx, Megamouse

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    • SGaistS Offline
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      #2

      Hi,

      See the qt.conf documentation.

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      • MegamouseM Offline
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        Megamouse
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        #3

        I understand how I can change the default plugin path with the .conf or the static function, and moving the files there and running the app does indeed work.
        Also I can see that I can change the path with --plugindir <path> in windeployqt.
        But doing so won't deploy them to that directory at all.

        Is there something I'm missing?

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        • SGaistS Offline
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          #4

          Sorry, I haven't used that option from windeployqt.

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          • MegamouseM Offline
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            Megamouse
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            So i figured it out with
            --plugindir $(TargetDir)\qtplugins
            in the VS properties.

            But now it complains about the windows plugin not being found (platforms folder is now also in the plugins folder).

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            • MegamouseM Offline
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              Megamouse
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              nevermind... I was being stupid.
              It should be
              --plugindir $(TargetDir)\plugins
              since qtplugins would need to be added to the librarypaths first.

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              • MegamouseM Offline
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                Megamouse
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                #7

                now the only thing left are the qt module dlls

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                • MegamouseM Offline
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                  Megamouse
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #8

                  So I got it to deploy the dlls (Qt5Core.dll ...) to a subfolder with
                  --libdir $(TargetDir)\qt\libs
                  And added that path to the qt.conf file.
                  It works fine in visual studio, but when I run the exe itself it still misses those dlls

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                  • SGaistS Offline
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                    Did you check your qt.conf file ?

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                    • MegamouseM Offline
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                      Megamouse
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #10

                      of course.

                      Windows seems to look for those dlls at execution.

                      This means I did nothing wrong, but I think it's just not possible without adding those dlls to PATH similar on windows side.

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                        Can you show your folder layout and qt.conf file content ?

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                        • MegamouseM Offline
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                          Megamouse
                          wrote on last edited by Megamouse
                          #12

                          This is the not working layout.
                          Moving the contents of libs back to the appdir and removing the Libraries entry from the .conf and windeployqt works fine.

                          [Paths]
                          Prefix = qt/
                          Plugins = plugins
                          Libraries = libs
                          

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                            Are you using windeployqt with all options to set the paths you want to use ?

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                            • MegamouseM Offline
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                              Megamouse
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #14

                              --libdir $(TargetDir)\qt\libs --plugindir $(TargetDir)\qt\plugins

                              the deploy works fine.
                              also plugins are found.
                              but windows can't find the other dlls.

                              I guess it's simply not possible or Qt/Windows isn't supporting this yet

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                              • SGaistS Offline
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                                What if you use lib in place of libs ?

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                                • MegamouseM Offline
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                                  #16

                                  I can't imagine that would make any difference. I redefine the folder to libs, so lib should be irrelevant. Also I am 100% sure I tried that anyway.

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