Thread: Calibre Qt DLLs override the system Qt DLLs
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Old 03-10-2009, 05:12 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Unfortunately, the way calibre is setup currently, it needs to have the Qt dlls on the PATH. I could probably change that if I tried hard enough, but...
Well, then the only solution is to edit the PATH by hand so system Qt libs get loaded before calibre's. I did it on my system, and it's not difficult. What is difficult is finding out what was the problem in the first place. I was using Qt 4.5 for an application, and all debug builds were running fine. OTOH, the release builds crashed spectacularly.

It was not an easy thing to debug. And a windows application should not put any DLLs on the PATH if it's not bent on providing those libs to other apps... this specific issue being proof enough.
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