[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5.x debug, VC9 and Windows SDK. exe will not run

[wwp]

Hello John,


On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:07:42 -0400 John McClurkin <jwm at nei.nih.gov> wrote:

> wwp wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > 
> > I get troubles with a Qt 4.5.1 debug library built from the sources
> > using VC9 (MSVC 2008 sp1) and Windows SDK (6.1).
> > 
> > I cannot run any .exe built on top of this Qt lib (whatever a tiny C++
> > sample or Qt's assistant.exe), once the .exe is copied onto another
> > machine but the dev. machine, it won't run even if the Qt debug
> > libraries and VC9SP1's *debug* libraries are copied where the .exe
> > resides.
> > 
> > Attempting to run the .exe gives the famous error:
> > "The application has failed to start because the application configuration
> > is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem."
> > 
> > Within Dependency Walkers, the .exe shows correct deps to VC9SP1-debug
> > libs.
> > 
> > I don't get such problems w/ the Qt library built in the same
> > conditions but in RELEASE mode (of course provided that the VC9sp1's
> > redist DLLs are installed). I was not facing such problems w/ Qt 3.3.x
> > (VC8sp1/PSDK).
> > 
> > Common issues found while google'ing didn't help fixing it up. Adding
> > _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1 to the defines of the QMAKESPEC
> > before building Qt didn't.
> > 
> > I can't get a clue about what is wrong w/ that debug build of Qt lib..
> > 
> > Any help?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> I am using Visual Studio 2005, not 2008, but in the Deployment Examples 
> section of the documentation, it states that redistributing debug VC++ 
> is not permitted by the EULA. Perhaps your difficulty arises from that 
> prohibition.

Well, nobody talked about redistributing, and I'm well aware of those
licensing restrictions.. I'm doing this on a test machine here, still
in the development area. This always worked for all toolkits and
products I worked on, helping getting post-mortem information during
the testing sessions.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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