[Interest] How to deploy qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak on Windows

[Glenn Ramsey]

On 17/12/15 11:53, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am attempting to create a PyInstaller build for a PyQt application that uses
> QtWebEngine on Windows. I have this mostly working but scroll bars in the
> QtWebEngine window are red. This is apparently caused by the lack of the files
> qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak and qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak.
> 
> As far as I can tell from this patch
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/121432/ these should be deployed in the
> application directory. I have put them there but they are not being found. The
> error message (below) indicates that they are being looked for in the directory
> that was passed as -prefix when configuring the qt build.
> 
> [1217/110543:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load C:\Users\glenn\Docume
> nts\rp\thirdparty\qt551\qtbase\qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak
> Some features may not be available.
> 
> In this application the main executable, QtWebEngineProcess.exe, and its support
> files (icudtl.dat, qtwebengine_resources.pak, etc) are in the same directory.
> 
> If not in the application directory then where should these files
> qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak and qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak be deployed?
> 

The solution to this issue is to create a qt.conf file in the app dir with the
contents:

[Paths]
Prefix=.


Thanks to Herbert Danzinger for directing me to this forum post:

https://forum.qt.io/topic/52666/error-resource_bundle-cc-639-failed-to-load-qtwebengine_resources-pak/2

Glenn