On 20/01/2017 03:42, Joe Taylor wrote: > After installing the program I get the following error when launching > "Program has stopped working "looking for a Qt platform plugin "windows".
Hi Joe, the way this works is that a Qt development tools install patches the path, to the plugin libraries and other resources located at run time, into the, Qt libraries. This means that during development you do not have to worry about how these run time dependencies are found. When you deploy to other systems there has to be another mechanism which is the qt.conf file. The Qt libraries look for a qt.conf file in a specified, platform dependent, list of locations. In the qt.conf you can specify the path to the plugins root directory, the path can be relative so a moveable installation is possible. So bottom line, when building a deployable package, you must include the required plugin libraries and other runtime loaded resources in a suitable directory structure and generate a matching qt.conf file so that the Qt libraries can find the plugins and resources. If you are using qmake to make deployable packages there is a tool called qtdeploy to do this stuff, with CMake there are helper scripts although generating the qt.conf file and picking the required plugin components is a manual process. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt-conf.html 73 Bill G4WJS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
