running Qt program in Windows Vista

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narcis_agh

Beginner

Posts: 16

Location: Iran

Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 12:12pm

running Qt program in Windows Vista

Hi,
I have installed QT 4.3 software on Windows Vista. Now I have two problems.
1. When I type qmake in command Promt, it says :
"qmake is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"
2. And in Qt 4.3.4 Command Prompt when I type qmake -project it makes hello.pro file, then I type qmake hello.pro and it makes debug and release folders and Makefile, Makefile.Debug and Makefile.Release files. Then I type make and it makes hello.exe and hello.o files in release folder. When I run hello.exe file it says:
This apllication has failed to start because mingwm10.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
Can anyone help me please ?

stinos

Intermediate

Posts: 225

Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 1:35pm

both are path related:
1. define QTDIR as environment variable and append %QTDIR%\bin to PATH
2. append the directory where that dll is to your path

btw using the search function or google would have worked as well

madinsjamania

narcis_agh

Beginner

Posts: 16

Location: Iran

Saturday, May 3rd 2008, 3:11pm

In Environment Variable tab there are two parts. Users Variables and System Variables. In System variables I added a new variable with QTDIR variable and c:\Qt\4.3.4\bin value but still I have problems with compiling my Qt files. Any more help ? Can you tell me about configure command ?
configure -platform win32-msvc
What must I type instead of platform and whats win32-msvc ?

Messenger

Intermediate

Posts: 325

Location: Lt

Saturday, May 3rd 2008, 3:20pm

>>This apllication has failed to start because mingwm10.dll was not found

mingwm10.dll must be in one of %PATH% environment variable directories.

Just copy mingwm10.dll beside the application (or beside qt library dlls [qt base]\bin).

Or just modify "Qt 4.3.4 Command Prompt" (qtvars.bat) to include mingw32 bin directory and rerun Command Promt. Then run application.

>>still I have problems with compiling my Qt files
What errors are exactly?

Fighting fire with fire.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Messenger" (May 3rd 2008, 3:22pm)

narcis_agh

Beginner

Posts: 16

Location: Iran

Sunday, May 4th 2008, 9:07am

I copied mingwm10.dll, QtCore4.dll and QtGui.dll files to the release folder in project folder. Now it works. But I want compile my project without doing these copy/paste actions. You said me to set environment variable. But I am not familiar with this expression and I dunno how to do it in Windows Vista. And I have another question. Whats this Qt 4.3.4(Build Debug Libraries) file ? And another question. When I compile my file the .exe file just appear in release folder. Doesn't the file get compiled in debug mode ?

thanks