Error building Qt 5.3.0 on Windows 7 x64: idc.exe qguiapplication.cpp could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows"

Question

I downloaded qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.0.zip and am trying to build on Windows 7 x64. I was able to build Qt 5.2.1 earlier on this same machine, so I'm mystified why 5.3.0 is not working.

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 x64 Win64 Command Prompt.

I have tried several configurations:

configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase -developer-build -opensource -nomake tests -no-opengl -no-angle -plugin-sql-sqlite -platform win32-msvc2008 -make-tool jom

configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase -developer-build -opensource -nomake tests -opengl desktop -plugin-sql-sqlite -platform win32-msvc2008 -make-tool jom

configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase -developer-build -opensource -nomake tests -opengl desktop -platform win32-msvc2008 -make-tool jom

I get the same result for each: 3 identical message boxes pop up, then eventually the build ends with errors.

The message boxes are:

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Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library

Debug Error!

Program: c:\Qt\qt530_x64\qtbase\bin\idc.exe Module: 5.3.0 File: kernel\qguiapplication.cpp Line: 999

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, windows.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

(Press Retry to debug the application)

Abort Retry Ignore

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I got it working for what I need, anyway. I deleted everything in the folders: qtdeclarative qtwebkit qtwebkit-examples

because those modules were causing build failures, and I don't need them.

Then, I configured with:

configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase -developer-build -opensource -nomake tests -no-compile-examples -no-opengl -no-angle -plugin-sql-sqlite -platform win32-msvc2008 -qtlibinfix _mycompany -make-tool jom

and jom built Qt 5.3.0 successfully.