Fortune Server and Client Example Programs

[Mike_m]

Hello,
I have compiled and ran Fortune Server and Client example programs that came with Qt as shown below:

fortune_server_screen_01.PNG

fortun_client_screen_01.PNG

These two programs are working as shown above when I ran from Qt Creator Window.

However, when I exit Qt Creator and directly run these two programs
by double clicking on their exe file names in Microsoft Windows Explorer,
these two programs are NOT starting and giving following errors:

fortune_server_entry_point_error_screen_01.PNG

May I please know how to run Qt programs by double clicking their exe file names in Microsoft Windows Explorer?

I have server exe file at following location/path:

C:\Qt\Qt_account_forum\build-fortuneserver-Desktop_Qt_5_9_0_MinGW_32bit-Debug\debug

C:\Qt\Qt_account_forum\build-fortuneserver-Desktop_Qt_5_9_0_MinGW_32bit-Debug\debug

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Thanks

[high_flyer]

The Qt dlls location nees ot be known to the exe.
When you run it from QtCreator it provides the paths.
When you run it from explorer the exe does not know where to look for the DLLs.
You can either copy the DLLs to the same folder where your exe is, or add the Qt DLLs path to the PATH system variable.

[Mike_m]

Hello high_flyer,
Thank you very much.
How to the find the location/path of DLL please?
Or can you please let me know couple of DDL names?
Then I can search for those names of DLLs on my computer and add their path to my environment variable.
Best regards,

[high_flyer]

The Qt DLLs are under: <The path of your Qt installation>/5.8/mingw491_32/bin/
(In this case its Qt5.8, if you have another version, the '5.8' folder will reflect the version you installed.
The above path is for Qt for windows which is built and deliverd with MinGW.
If you installed the MSVC version, it should be similar, only instead of mingw491_32 something that sounds more microsoft like.