0.13 alpha: start failed

[Nick Fedoseev]

Just installed 0.13 alpha on Windows 7 x64.

The following message appears:
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stellarium
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This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
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ОК
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Reinstalling does not help.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Please try download and run 0.13.0alpha2.

[misibacsi (listas123)]

I installed 0.13.0alpha2 on a Win XP 32-bit machine.
At start it crashes with Microsoft error-reporter.
I did not remove the previous config files.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Damn! Which error

[misibacsi (listas123)]

It is the same with another install, removing the previous config files. At start, the program crashes.

[misibacsi (listas123)]

Is there a logfile somewhere which I can send to you?

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

I tried the alpha2 on XP. Same thing here. A window frame appears (I rin in windowed mode here), then the windows crashpanel.

The logfile ends with:

StelPainter: initGLShaders()...
StelPainter: initGLShaders()... done
qrc:/qml/main.qml:3:1: module "Qt.labs.shaders" is not installed
"file not found: modules/Exoplanets/libExoplanets.dll"
"file not found: modules/Satellites/libSatellites.dll"
"file not found: modules/Pulsars/libPulsars.dll"
"file not found: modules/TelescopeControl/libTelescopeControl.dll"
"file not found: modules/Oculars/libOculars.dll"
"file not found: modules/Quasars/libQuasars.dll"
"file not found: modules/Supernovae/libSupernovae.dll"
"file not found: modules/SolarSystemEditor/libSolarSystemEditor.dll"
Loaded plugin "AngleMeasure" .
AngleMeasure plugin - press control-A to toggle angle measure mode

Not sure about the qrc message, maybe this is the problem?

G.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Hm. What about alpha3?

[misibacsi (listas123)]

alpha3 works on my Win XP 32-bit system

[Nick Fedoseev (nick-ut2uz)]

alpha3 works on Windows7 x64.
Wrong direction of mouse scroller zoom bug disapeared with this version.
It seems to work significantly faster.

But... I'd like to have separate installations of Stellarium 0.12.4 and 0.13, so entered different folder and different name for Start menu. But that name does not appear in the list of Start menu. Also 0.13.3 alpha uses configuration files from 0.12.4. Are there full compatibility? Anyway, how to separate configs? Just for comparision between versions.

Extra star catalogs are new, but loaded into common folder and use same starsConfig.json.

Thanks!

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Nick, you can use CLI options for it - http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Use#Command_Line_Options