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How to run cmake gui from the msys2 shell

Opening the mingw64 shell (from msys2) and typing cmake-gui I get the following error:

`$ cmake-gui
 C:/DEV/msys64/mingw64/bin/cmake-gui.exe: error while loading shared libraries:`
    Qt5WinExtras.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I also tried to fix it by installing the "extra cmake modules" with the pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-extra-cmake-modules command, without getting results.

Solution

  • Qt5WinExtras.dll is part of mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5 package. You can find package details here: https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5.