QMYSQL Driver not found

I created a program in QT with the QMYSQL driver. On my computer and when testing everything seems to work fine with the program. When I compile a release and copy it to another computer I get the message that QMYSQL driver is not loaded.

Any ideas on how to build with MYSQL running?

Thanks,

Pericles

in your release folder make dir plugins in plugins copy mysql.dll and add below lines in your code

Code:

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QString pFileName("databasename");
 
        QStringList str;
	str.append(".");
	qApp->setLibraryPaths(str);
	qApp->addLibraryPath("./plugins/");
 
	qDebug()<<"my library path : "<<qApp->libraryPaths();
 
	QLibrary Mysqlib("libMysql.so");
	Mysqlib.load();
	qDebug()<<"my library loaded"<< Mysqlib.isLoaded();

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The code says that I should have a libmysql.so.
I added the folder and the libmysql.dll file from C:\Windows
But now it seems that not even my development machine works. When I remove the new code the development machine works but when I added back it does not work.

Thanks,

Pericles

I copied the whole plugins folder which includes the sqldrivers folder within it and it seems to do something. Gives me a different error but it might be because it cannot find the remote database and not due to the driver.

I will check that out again by installing MySQL locally and testing on the user computer and then trying to get the remote database to work.

Thanks,

Pericles

qt default it will search in qt dir(c://qt/plugins) for plugins when you run this executable in different machine you should give the library path otherwise it will search again same path(c://qt/plugins) .

This has been covered many times in this forum

You need to deploy the Qt MySQL plugin and the MySQL client library that it depends on along with your application. You deployed application should be arranged like this (Windows):

Code:

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C:\Program Files\
  Cool App Dir\
    coolapp.exe
    qtcore4.dll
    qtgui4.dll
    qtsql4.dll
    ...
    imageformats\
      qjeg4.dll
      qgif4.dll
      ...
    sqldrivers\
      qmysql.dll     // <<< the Qt Mysql plugin
      libmysql.dll    // <<< The MySQL client library from the MySql distribution
 
    plugins\
      // any custom plugin you have written for your program to load directly

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There is no need to do anything with the Qt library path if you arrange it like that.

And here's how to build qt mysql plugin.