> On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Henry Skoglund <fro...@tungware.se> wrote: > > Hi, > > about my gripe that Qt 5.4.1 didn't install the MSVC dlls into Windows, > you are right, it sure did, my bad! (The culprit was me copying the > MSVC2013 dlls manually earlier on to make my Creator plugin work, which > I of course forgot :-) And 5.4.1 anyway, as you wrote, uses MSVC2010. > > And about that opengl32sw.dll crash: since you can delete the file as a > workaround I think it's no big deal, I mentioned XP in VirtualBox and > VMWare Fusion work fine which I think is the vast majority of the XP > users remaining, it's just Workstation and Player that bombs, and that > on a Ubuntu PC that has no graphics card, just the Haswell integrated > graphics).
> (BTW I tested with SET QT_OPENGL=software but no change). Yeah, my bad, I didn’t realize that opengl32sw.dll is actually the software renderer, that is obviously problematic :D > Happy Easter! Rgrds Henry > > > On 2015-03-31 09:02, Koehne Kai wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Henry Skoglund [mailto:fro...@tungware.se] >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:48 AM >>> To: qt-creator@qt-project.org; Koehne Kai >>> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Qt Creator 3.4 binaries will be compiled with MSVC >>> 2013 (dynamic opengl) >>> >>> Hi, couldn't resist taking you up on that XP claim :-) >>> >>> I tested Qt Creator 3.3.81 built morning of March 30: >>> >>> * On my XP machine: works fine (no patching required!) >>> * Windows 10 latest preview: works fine (future proof) >>> * Windows XP in Virtual Box 4.3.10: works fine >>> * Windows XP in VMWare Fusion 6.0.5: works fine >>> * Windows XP in VMWare Workstation 11.1.0: crashes with illegal instruction >>> in opengl32sw.dll :-( The cure is to delete that file opengl32sw.dll and try >>> again, then Qt Creator works, except of course for the Welcome plugin which >>> is not so welcoming) >>> >>> So why the snag in the VMWare Workstation XP? Well I ran qtdiag.exe (BTW >>> what an excellent program that is, has no pretty UI but in my mind it's >>> part of >>> the real gold in Qt) turns out in both VMWare cases it's the same vmx_fb.dll >>> that's used, for the XP in Fusion it returns LibGL vendor VMWare Inc. format >>> version 2.0, which seems kosher for opengl32sw.dll. But for the XP in >>> Workstation 11 it returns LibGL vendor Microsoft Corp Generic GDI format >>> version 1.1, and that's probably why opengl32sw.dll goes haywire and has to >>> be taken out behind the barn and shot. >> >> As Eike already mentioned opengl32sw.dll is only used as a last fallback, so >> this migh explain the difference too. Bad enough, I had hopes the software >> renderer really works across all graphics drivers :( >> >> (It doesn't crash for me btw with a stock Windows XP in VirtualBox). >> >> >>> + also for now installing the MSVC2013 dlls into the bowels of Windows, >>> the vanilla Qt 5.4.1 installs them alongside qtcreator.exe and as you know >>> this >>> is heavily frowned upon by Microsoft. (Unless of course you are Microsoft, >>> in >>> that case you can grant yourself an exemption from this rule like when >>> installing the new Visual C++ Tools/Windows 10 Kit.) >> >> Huh? I don't think we've changed anything in this regard, we've been >> installing vcredist for MSVC2010 previously, now vcredist for MSVC2013 ... >> >>> Rgrds Henry >> >> Thanks a lot for the testing :) >> >>> P.S. BTW saw that 3.3.81 brings along Timeline.dll, is that a new feature >>> (QML >>> profiler stuff)? >> >> Not really a feature, just factoring out stuff in a separate dll AFAIK. >> >> Regards >> >> Kai >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - The Qt Company GmbH The Qt Company GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator