Why I cannot open an application that a friend had give to me?

**Bong.Da.City** · 17th August 2010, 23:46

ok, leave it...........

**Urthas** · 17th August 2010, 23:57

If your friend swears that the .exe file runs on two of his computers, then it is quite possible that you are missing some libraries on YOUR computer.

**Bong.Da.City** · 18th August 2010, 00:00

And where can i download those libraries?

**Urthas** · 18th August 2010, 00:04

To be honest, if this is the case then it's not your responsibility. Tell your friend that he/she may have forgotten to link against some libraries when building the .exe.

**squidge** · 18th August 2010, 07:51

If you know it's written in Qt, then by far the easiest way is to download Qt and install it.

**SixDegrees** · 18th August 2010, 08:00

You could also post meaningful error messages. Applications don't just fail to run; the operating system provides a wealth of information on exactly what the problem was, and you haven't provided any of it so far.

Under Linux, the easiest way to gather such output is to run an application from the console, and capture the output. I suppose it is the same under Windows.