Qt-opensource-windows-x86-5.15.2.exe Info

Qt 5.15.2 on Windows does not ship with OpenSSL binaries due to export regulations. Developers attempting to use QSslSocket or HTTPS requests will find that networking fails silently unless they manually place the OpenSSL DLLs (e.g., libssl-1_1.dll and libcrypto-1_1.dll) in the application directory or system PATH.

Create hello.pro:

QT += widgets
SOURCES = main.cpp
TARGET = hello
CONFIG += c++17

Create main.cpp:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QLabel>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QLabel label("Hello from Qt 5.15.2 offline!");
label.show();
return app.exec();

Build:

qmake hello.pro
nmake release  (for MSVC)
mingw32-make    (for MinGW)

Run release\hello.exe.

Success! You are now running an application built from the famous offline installer.

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The installer includes precompiled libraries for OpenSSL, ICU, and ANGLE (for OpenGL emulation). Rebuilding these from source is tedious; the EXE provides them out-of-the-box. Create main