[Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows

[Dave Partyka]

I think you get this error if you're missing a dll at runtime? If you place
your plugin in the bin dir of your build and load it from there does it
work?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Eric Nodwell <enodwell at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Following this thread: http://markmail.org/message/f25hi3bl6ldptzav , I'd
> just like to add that I get exactly the same error.
>
> Namely, we have a number of plugins that compile and load on Linux and on
> OS-X, but on Windows XP we get a "is not a valid Qt plugin" error when we
> attempt to load them.
>
> There was some speculation in the thread that this occurs when Visual C++
> Express 2008 is used.  This is indeed the compiler that we have used to
> compile everything (Qt, ParaView, etc...)
>
> Here are some system details:
> - ParaView 3.6.2
> - Qt 4.3.5
> - Windows XP 32 bit
> - Visual C++ Express 2008 (version 9)
>
> As a side note, I attempted to set the environment variable PV_PLUGIN_DEBUG
> as described at http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Debugging_Plugins in
> order to obtain more information, but it didn't seem to have any effect.
>  There was no additional output in either the Output Messages window or the
> terminal from which paraview was started.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
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