Devastating Deployment Issues

[xtlc]

no i am not. i am not sure about anything regarding deployment

How can I check this / undo my mistake?

[ChrisW67]

It is difficult because I cannot see your machine and do not have a VS2010 or 2012 install.

Exactly which version of Qt have you downloaded and installed?
What directories do you have in your Qt install directory?
Is there more than one Qt5Widgets.dll on your machine (other than the one in your deployment folder)? Which paths?

[xtlc]

Ok I will try to bring all the intel together

I have installed QT 5.1.0 in c:\5.1.0

Here is a screnie of the Visual Studio components:
msvs.jpg
The Screenie of the QT5 dir:
qt5dir.PNG
The QT5Widgets.dll's:
qt5widgets.jpg

Thx for your help!

[xtlc]

Anyone else some ideas please?

[xtlc]

pretty please?!

[xtlc]

Dependency Walker now shows these three Files missing:

API-MS-WIN-CORE-SHUTDOWN-L1-1-1.DLL
EXT-MS-WIN-NTUSER-UICONTEXT-EXT-L1-1-0.DLL
IESHIMS.DLL

Shall I put them in the deployment dir or not?

I still have no idea what to do with these red marked lines:
depends23.jpg

[ChrisW67]

I will try to put together a blow-by-blow in the morning when I get a suitable Windows machine built up.

[ChrisW67]

OK. I will go through an entire build step by step. I have use the command prompt so I can be precise about what is copied, from where, and it is copy-n-paste ready.

I have the following:

• A fresh Windows 7 machine
• A fresh Windows SDK 7.1 install. This has the same compilers as VS2010, so you will have to substitute 2012 everywhere you see 2010.
• A fresh install of Qt 5.1.1 using the online installer. This is a 32-bit ANGLE build in the default, C:\Qt, folder.

I created a test folder and placed two test files in it.
test.pro:

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = test
INCLUDEPATH += .
QT += widgets
# Input
SOURCES += main.cpp

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = test
INCLUDEPATH += .
QT += widgets
# Input
SOURCES += main.cpp

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main.cpp:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QWidget>
 
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        QApplication app(argc, argv);
        QWidget w;
        w.show();
        return app.exec();
}

#include <QApplication>
#include <QWidget>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        QApplication app(argc, argv);
        QWidget w;
        w.show();
        return app.exec();
}

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From the Start menu, All Programs, Qt, 5.1.1, "MSVC 2010" launch "Qt 5.1.1 for Desktop (MSVC 2010)"
From the command prompt run:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x86 /release

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x86 /release

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(This path may differ depending on how you got your C++ compiler. The batch file may be called vcvarsall and may live under a Visual Studio folder.)
Then build and test the program which should launch a single empty window:

qmake CONFIG+=release
nmake
release\test.exe

qmake CONFIG+=release
nmake
release\test.exe

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Check that the release\test.exe program does not run if double-clicked from Windows Explorer.
Now, back in the command prompt:

mkdir deploy
xcopy release\test.exe deploy
 
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Core.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Gui.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Widgets.dll deploy
 
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\libEGL.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\libGLESv2.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\D3DCompiler_43.dll deploy
 
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icudt51.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icuin51.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icuuc51.dll deploy
 
mkdir deploy\platforms
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\platforms\qwindows.dll deploy\platforms

mkdir deploy
xcopy release\test.exe deploy

xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Core.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Gui.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\Qt5Widgets.dll deploy

xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\libEGL.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\libGLESv2.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\D3DCompiler_43.dll deploy

xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icudt51.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icuin51.dll deploy
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\bin\icuuc51.dll deploy

mkdir deploy\platforms
xcopy c:\Qt\5.1.1\msvc2010\platforms\qwindows.dll deploy\platforms

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Check that the "deploy\test.exe" program does run if double-clicked from Windows Explorer on the developer machine.

Back in the command prompt:

xcopy c:"\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Redist\VC\vcredist_x86.exe" deploy

xcopy c:"\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Redist\VC\vcredist_x86.exe" deploy

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This path may be different on your machine: just find the VC redistributable that matches your compiler in the Windows SDK or Visual Studio folders.

Copy the "deploy" folder including subdirectory to another non-dev machine.
Run the "deploy\vcredist_x86.exe" on the target machine to install the VC runtime. (This exe is not required again after this)
Check that the "deploy\test.exe" program does run if double-clicked from Windows Explorer on the non-dev machine.

[xtlc]

Thank you very much. I will try this tomorrow first thing in the morning, when the coffeine still does its job.

[xtlc]

My PC is a win8, I already have some troubles in an early stage

Here is my *.pro file:

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2013-07-25T11:53:23
#
#-------------------------------------------------
 
QT       += core gui\
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets printsupport
 
TARGET = GUI
TEMPLATE = app
 
include(qextserialport-1.2rc\src\qextserialport.pri)
 
SOURCES += main.cpp\
        mainwindow.cpp \
    protokoll.cpp \
    multireturn.cpp \
    qcustomplot.cpp
 
HEADERS  += mainwindow.h \
    protokoll.h \
    multireturn.h \
    qcustomplot.h
 
FORMS    += mainwindow.ui
DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2013-07-25T11:53:23
#
#-------------------------------------------------

QT       += core gui\
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets printsupport

TARGET = GUI
TEMPLATE = app

include(qextserialport-1.2rc\src\qextserialport.pri)

SOURCES += main.cpp\
        mainwindow.cpp \
    protokoll.cpp \
    multireturn.cpp \
    qcustomplot.cpp

HEADERS  += mainwindow.h \
    protokoll.h \
    multireturn.h \
    qcustomplot.h

FORMS    += mainwindow.ui
DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0

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Looks similar to yours ...

But I dont have your path - instead I could offer:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\"

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but in this directory, there is only a "NETFX 4.0 Tools" folder and no "SetEnv.cmd" in it - or on any other part on the HDD What shall I do now? I found a "SetEnv.c" tough.

[ChrisW67]

Microsoft, in their wisdom, removed the native compiler (cl.exe, link.exe and friends) from the Windows 8 SDK. They are part of Microsoft Visual Studio though.
Building on the Command Line
Setting the Path and Environment Variables for Command-Line Builds
The environment setting scripts is "vcvars32.bat" according to the docs above.

If it is all too difficult to build from the command line you can use Qt Creator or VS to build my test project in release mode and continue from the command prompt.

[xtlc]

I did the "Setting the Path and Environment Variables for CMD Line Builds" - altough I tried the 64Bit version: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.110).apx - so I executed VCVARSALL with no argument (so my output should become a 32Bit exe, right?)

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Added after 17 minutes:

If I now do the cmd thingy thing:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC>nmake "c:\Users\verena\De
sktop\build-GUI-Desktop_Qt_5_1_0_MSVC2012_64bit-Release\Makefile"
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility, Version 11.00.50727.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
 
""c:\Users\verena\Desktop\build-GUI-Desktop_Qt_5_1_0_MSVC2012_
64bit-Release\Makefile"" ist aktuell

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC>nmake "c:\Users\verena\De
sktop\build-GUI-Desktop_Qt_5_1_0_MSVC2012_64bit-Release\Makefile"

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility, Version 11.00.50727.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

""c:\Users\verena\Desktop\build-GUI-Desktop_Qt_5_1_0_MSVC2012_
64bit-Release\Makefile"" ist aktuell

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"aktuell" means "up to date".

So if I then do the xcopy thing in my deployment folder and double click it -> nothing happens. I dont understand why this is such a big thing to do. I want to spend my time coding, not wondering what I do to bring my program to run. Thats something I would feel a SDK should take care of. I am obviously missing sth here... what is it?