Tuesday 29 September 2015

windows - How to fix QGIS error "Entry Point could not be located"?


Today, after returning from vacations, I started my QGIS 1.7 and got this terrible message:



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Help, anyone?



Answer



In Portugal, the citizen card which offers an authentication and digital signature service that works via browsers puts older qt dll's in windows\system32. Renaming these stops these services from running...


You can copy QGIS Qtcore4.dll and QtGui4.dll to the folder where qgis.exe is placed. This works without renaming the older dll's. The reason this works is the search order used by windows to find the required dll's for an executable. First in line is the executable folder. After that it searches \windows\system32, and only after that PATH is searched.


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