qt 5.2.0 windows 7 missing dlls (program crashes)

Tim picture Tim · Jan 15, 2014 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

Trying to run a Windows 7, Qt 5.2.0 program and it crashes immediately. I have the mingw48_32 version, and 32 bit version of Qt 5.2.0. I dont have Visual Studio, although I did download and install some of the 2010 VS SDK and .Net framework stuff, still no luck. Ive tried searching for these things to no avail. If it is somewhere on my machine I have yet to find them.

After running dependency walker it shows the following missing DLL's:

GPSVC.DLL
IESHIM.DLL
API-MS-WIN-SHCORE-SCALING-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-EVENTING-PROVIDER-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-STRING-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-ROBUFFER-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-ERROR-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-SYSINFO-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-SYNCH-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-RTLSUPPORT-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-REGISTRY-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSTHREADS-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-MEMORY-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-LIBRARYLOADER-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-INTERLOCKED-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-HEAP-L1-2-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-ERRORHANDLING-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-DELAYLOAD-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-DEBUG-L1-1-1.DLL
API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-RUNTIME-L1-1-0.DLL

I really appreciate any help on getting past this! Already spent a couple days trying to figure it out. Thanks!

Answer

Boiko Angelov picture Boiko Angelov · Feb 19, 2014

The same thing happened to me today. I found the problem. My program was loading a DLL with wrong version. This can occur when from the PATH or in the folder of the program is found incompatible library, which have references to these "missing" libraries. In the documentation of Windows is explained in what priority folders are searched for DLLs.