[Interest] windeployqt on executable with a shared library in the project

[Scott Bloom]

I was just about to send a “resolved” email to the list (for other who may have the same problem.

Ill file the bugs later today or tomorrow;

1) The issue’s root cause is that the library was named starting with a Q, so the tool assumed it was a Qt library not a library using Qt.
2) The ignore library errors switch doesn’t apply to Qt libraries
3) There is no way to add a “lib search dir” that works for this situation.

Scott
From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Axel Spoerl via Interest
Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 22:45
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Subject: Re: [Interest] windeployqt on executable with a shared library in the project

Hi Scott,

windeployqt has a —libdir option.
As a last resort (e.g. if libraries are in multiple locations), custom shared libraries can also be added manually to the output directory.
That coud be done in a custom script, in addition to or wrapping windeployqt.

Cheers
Axel


On 2 Oct 2025, at 00:25, Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com<mailto:scott at towel42.com>> wrote:

My project has an executable as well as a shared library.

Windeployqt fails to find the shared library, because its looking in the QT directory.

I don’t see any option on windeployqt to give it other paths to search or to exclude a dependency.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Scott
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