This application failed to start

[Aynyuh]

Dear developer, I got This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "" error when trying to launch wotreplay-gui.exe:

I think everyone gets this error because release distribution missed some files required to run Qt application. It can be solved by including all necessary files in a release so everyone can run the app smoothly.

Full Windows Deployment Tool output

PS C:\Users\User> C:\Qt\Qt5.9.8\5.9.8\msvc2015\bin\windeployqt.exe "C:\Users\User\Desktop\wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32\wotreplay-gui.exe"
C:\Users\User\Desktop\wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32\wotreplay-gui.exe 32 bit, release executable
Adding Qt5Svg for qsvgicon.dll
Direct dependencies: Qt5Core Qt5Gui Qt5Widgets
All dependencies   : Qt5Core Qt5Gui Qt5Widgets
To be deployed     : Qt5Core Qt5Gui Qt5Svg Qt5Widgets
Warning: Cannot find Visual Studio installation directory, VCINSTALLDIR is not set.
Qt5Core.dll is up to date.
Qt5Gui.dll is up to date.
Updating Qt5Svg.dll.
Qt5Widgets.dll is up to date.
Updating libGLESV2.dll.
Updating libEGL.dll.
Updating D3Dcompiler_47.dll.
Updating opengl32sw.dll.
Patching Qt5Core.dll...
Creating directory C:/Users/User/Desktop/wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32/iconengines.
Updating qsvgicon.dll.
Creating directory C:/Users/User/Desktop/wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32/imageformats.
Updating qgif.dll.
Updating qicns.dll.
Updating qico.dll.
Updating qjpeg.dll.
Updating qsvg.dll.
Updating qtga.dll.
Updating qtiff.dll.
Updating qwbmp.dll.
Updating qwebp.dll.
Creating directory C:/Users/User/Desktop/wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32/platforms.
Updating qwindows.dll.
Creating C:\Users\User\Desktop\wotreplay-parser-20200609.202453-win32\translations...
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PS C:\Users\User>

[evido]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look on how I can provide a proper package.

[themcgarvie]

Also get this, would be fab if you can include missing DLLs

[evido]

I've updated the release https://github.com/evido/wotreplay-parser/releases/tag/20200609.222026 with this process.