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

for notepad tutorial, on win7 & qt5.1.1

the deploy steps is:

* change build mode to release, not debug,
* build,
* create a output folder somewhere
    e.g. desktop/notepad/
* 
* copy file to output folder
    file list:
    * from "workspace_home/build-notepad-xxx-Release/release"
        * notepad.exe
    * from "qt_home/5.1.1/msvc2010/bin"
        * icudt51.dll
        * icuin51.dll
        * icuuc51.dll
        * libEGL.dll
        * libGLESv2.dll
        * Qt5Core.dll
        * Qt5Gui.dll
        * Qt5Widgets.dll
        * 
    * from "qt_home/5.1.1/msvc2010/plugins/platforms"
        * platforms/ (need to create this sub folder in the output folder)
            * qwindows.dll
        * 
    * 
* 
* run the .exe file, make sure it works,
* 
* ok
*