Re: [Mingw-w64-public] relocating Qt5 based program?

2020-01-03 Thread David Grayson
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 3:23 PM David Mathog wrote: > Please define "next to". > "platforms" would be in the same directory as your executable, if I recall correctly. You could also try naming it "plugins" and you could also try putting copies of it in a bunch of different places. --David

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] relocating Qt5 based program?

2020-01-03 Thread David Mathog
On 2020-01-03 13:59, David Grayson wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:11 PM David Mathog wrote: qt.qpa.plugin could not find the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "" I've solved this type of error before without having to write a qt.conf file. Qt is looking for a DLL with a name that is so

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] relocating Qt5 based program?

2020-01-03 Thread David Grayson
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:11 PM David Mathog wrote: > qt.qpa.plugin could not find the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "" > I've solved this type of error before without having to write a qt.conf file. Qt is looking for a DLL with a name that is something like qwindows.dll or qt5windows.dll.

[Mingw-w64-public] relocating Qt5 based program?

2020-01-03 Thread David Mathog
How does one set up a qt.conf to allow distribution of a Python + Qt5 based application built with mingw64 so that it may be installed in whatever directory the user wants On the target system the binary files may not be modified, only a configuration file like qt.conf may be created (or som