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completely new to QT, but trying to pick it up. I have built a very very basic application which runs fine in the QT Creator, however if I try to run the exe from the debug or relase folder, I am getting messages about missing dll's. If I copy the dlls from other locations (by searching the QT SDK install folder) I eventually get an error:
" The procedure entry point ?metric@QWidget@@MBEHW4PaintDeviceMetric@QPaintDev ice@@@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library QtGuid4.dll "
Then you likely have the wrong DLLs. The DLLs in QtSDK\QtCreator\bin are the ones that Qt Creator uses. They are built with the same Microsoft compiler as Creator and cannot be used by an application built with a different compiler e.g. MingW or possibly newer MSVC. The DLLs and plugins you want are in the QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.8.x\{compiler}\bin and \plugins directories you configured and built your project with.