I've been struggling to get my application deployed properly for several weeks now (it's a hobby), and I just don't know what else to try.
I started a new project in Qt Creator (2.6.1), by selecting Applications -> Qt Quick 2 Application (Built-in Elements). I tweaked the QML to make the background blue and text red:
main.qml
import QtQuick 2.0
Rectangle {
width: 360
height: 360
color: "blue" // Added!
Text {
text: qsTr("Hello World")
anchors.centerIn: parent
color: "red" // Added!
}
MouseArea {
anchors.fill: parent
onClicked: {
Qt.quit();
}
}
}
I'm using Qt 5.0.1 and the x86 MSVC 2010 compiler. I built the Release version and it ran fine in QtCreator. If you need more compiler specifics, I'll post them.
To deploy, I created a new folder on my desktop called HelloWorld/ and copied everything from H:\Qt\Qt5.0.1\5.0.1\msvc2010\bin\* and H:\Qt\Qt5.0.1\5.0.1\msvc2010\plugins\* and 'H:\Qt\Qt5.0.1\5.0.1\msvc2010\qml* into it, along with the Release HelloWorld.exe executable.
Overkill? Yes. But I'm desperate.
When I run HelloWorld/HelloWorld.exe in Windows 7 64-bit, the application runs fine. But when I copy this HelloWorld/ folder over into a virtual machine running Windows XP 32-bit, it shows a properly-sized window, but with nothing in it (white, with no text). When clicking in the center of the window, the window closes as it should.
So I loaded the executable in Dependency Walker, but nothing looked out of the ordinary (IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL were of course missing). I ran Start Profile, and got a slew of red errors:
GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsAlloc") called from "MSVCR100.DLL" at address 0x78ABBA3B and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsGetValue") called from "MSVCR100.DLL" at address 0x78ABBA48 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsSetValue") called from "MSVCR100.DLL" at address 0x78ABBA55 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsFree") called from "MSVCR100.DLL" at address 0x78ABBA62 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
LoadLibraryExW("C:\documents and settings\owner\desktop\helloworld\platforms\qminimald.pdb", 0x00000000, DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES) returned NULL. Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application (193).
LoadLibraryExW("C:\documents and settings\owner\desktop\helloworld\platforms\qwindowsd.pdb", 0x00000000, DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES) returned NULL. Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application (193).
GetProcAddress(0x7E410000 [USER32.DLL], "UpdateLayeredWindowIndirect") called from "QWINDOWS.DLL" at address 0x013A8749 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C9C0000 [SHELL32.DLL], "SHCreateItemFromParsingName") called from "QWINDOWS.DLL" at address 0x013A8997 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C9C0000 [SHELL32.DLL], "SHGetStockIconInfo") called from "QWINDOWS.DLL" at address 0x013A89C9 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "GetTickCount64") called from "QT5CORE.DLL" at address 0x670726A7 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x755C0000 [MSCTFIME.IME], "ImeGetImeMenuItems") called from "IMM32.DLL" at address 0x76397354 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
GetProcAddress(0x4FDD0000 [D3D9.DLL], "Direct3DCreate9Ex") called from "LIBEGL.DLL" at address 0x01487198 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).
I also tried to run a debug version, but I only have the 64-bit versions of the MSVC100 dll's, so I can't copy them to the XP machine (I can only run the 32-bit redistributable). I don't know what other tools I can use to try to solve my problem.
I know I must be doing something stupid, but I really can't find anything on the internet to help. It's really frustrating to spend so much time developing a Qt application, and then get stuck trying to deploy it.
I should note that the program runs just fine in a Windows 7 32-bit virtual machine (after MSVC2012 redistributable has been installed).
The application I'm really interested in running, runs really strangely in Windows XP. When I first run it, the window sizes properly and a couple text strings show up. But none of the Rectangle{} elements are displayed. I left the app running for a few minutes as I made myself some coffee, and when I returned to my computer, the window was blinking random shapes and text, to the beat of the text cursor! What the heck is that?! It looked like a basic math function was screwed up, so parts of the interface were being displayed at improper sizes and positions. I even saw the real interface show up for one blink of the mouse cursor (and yes, the random shapes appear and disappear to the beat of the mouse cursor).
On a whim, I tried using the application (clicking where I know a text box exists), to populate one of the lists, and it worked! The application is running completely fine, except for the graphics. I know Qt 5.0 reworked some of the OpenGL handling, right? Could this be a bug, or maybe a library I haven't installed?
