[QScintilla] Designer plugin fails to load

Paul Kerchen pkerchen at simcreator.com
Fri Sep 5 22:31:46 BST 2008


So, after much head-scratching and rebuilding of libraries, I tracked down
the problem to a library mismatch between QScintilla and the plugin. I had
built qscintilla2.dll as a debug dll and that caused the release-built
plugin dll to crash upon loading.  

Paul

-----Original Message-----
>Subject: [QScintilla] Designer plugin fails to load
>Platform: Windows XP, Qt 4.3.3

>I've built and installed the 4.4.3 version of the QScintilla Designer
plugin, 
>but it isn't loading in Designer.  The DLL built without errors or warnings

>and is installed in the proper location, but according to the Plugin
Information 
>dialog, it's listed in the Failed Plugins category with the error message 
>"The file 'C:/Qt/4.3.3/plugins/designer/qscintillaplugin.dll' is not a
valid 
>Qt plugin."  Googling, searching the mailing list archives, and searching
Qt 
>Forum and Qt Centre didn't turn up anything, so presumably this "just
works"
>for other users of the plugin.  Does anyone have any ideas about what could
be 
>going wrong?  Perhaps the QScintilla 4.4.3 plugin isn't
backwards-compatible 
>with Qt 4.3.3?  Any help or pointers would be appreciated.  Thanks!




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