[Interest] Relocate Qt5 with qt.conf

[Koehne Kai]

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> Hi!
> I have build myself Qt-5.0.1+QtCreator with MinGW. Then I copy installation
> to another computer in different folder. I create qt.conf file in bin folder with
> next content:
> 
> [Paths]
> Prefix = c:/Qt64 //new location
> Translations = translations
> 
> QtCreator launch well. But when I try to launch sample application under
> QtCreator I get error:
> "Failed to load platform plugin "windows". Available platforms:"

qt.conf is picked up from the directory of the current binary. So to make it work you'd have to put a qt.conf also in the bin folder of your example application ... There's unfortunately no 'global' place to put a qt.conf in, you'll have to patch the paths in e.g. Qt5Core.dll to match the local installation path if you want to have it transparent.

Regards

Kai