Application deployed with QT5 libraries does not start on Windows 7

Question

Recently we have been migrating our QT based application on Windows from QT 4.8 to QT 5, and we have run into a issue with deployment. Note that our app has not changed, we

Answer 1

Yes, well spotted. I was having the same deployment problems using qt 5.0.2.

Likewise installed platforms folder with these two dlls in the apps folder, and the deployments on vista and win7 now work.

Dependency walker does not help here as it does not notify qwindows.dll or qminimal.dll as required dlls.

The platforms dlls in my Qt installation are at \Qt\5.0.2\mingw47_32\plugins\platforms.