How to solve the “no Qt platform plugin could be initialized” problem?

Question

I\'m trying to run a simple template in release mode on Visual Studio with the Qt extension. So far I\'ve always been running projects in debug mode (never had trouble)

Answer 1

See if this helps.

Are you trying to start the program by double clicking the .exe ? I tried to reproduce it:

• build a simple project in release mode
• run windeployqt ... and delete the generated folder ./platforms
• double click on .exe to run it.

and prompts the error message you got.