Embedded JPG resources not loading in Qt application

Question

I have a Qt application that has some embedded JPG files that I want to display. When I compile and run both the debug and release versions on my machine, everything works

Answer 1

While the most accurate answer is given already, rather than having to deploy more dlls and a folder structure, I find it much easier to just convert the images to png...no image format dlls etc. required if you use pngs.

Answer 2

It needs jpeg plugin to load images. If you have Qt installed they would be in %QTDIR%\plugins\imageformats.

Copy qjpeg4.dll into plugin folder on your thumb drive.

root/app.exe
root/qt.conf
root/plugins/imageformats/qjpeg4.dll

In qt.conf file set path to your plugins dir:

[Paths]
plugins=./plugins