windeployqt.exe cannot be found in Qt 6.11.1 built with vcpkg

[Flying-Magnus]

windeployqt.exe is missing in qtbase 6.11.1
It was available in qtbase 6.10.3
Is this a bug?

[Serge Yudin (yudin-s)]

In vcpkg, windeployqt.exe is typically shipped with qttools, not qtbase. If it disappeared after moving to 6.11.1, that usually means the package set changed or qttools is no longer in the environment.

The useful check is:

dir <vcpkg-root>\installed\x64-windows\tools\Qt6\bin\windeployqt*

If that directory has no windeployqt.exe, add qttools to the install/manifest for the same triplet, for example:

vcpkg install qttools:x64-windows

or in a manifest:

{
  "dependencies": [
    "qtbase",
    "qttools"
  ]
}

Then use the tool from:

installed\<triplet>\tools\Qt6\bin\windeployqt.exe

From the current vcpkg layout, this tool belongs under the Qt tools path, so I would treat "present in 6.10.3 with my previous install" as likely meaning qttools was installed before, or your old environment had the tool on PATH. If adding qttools restores it, that confirms this is a tool-package split and gives future readers the right fix path.

[Osyotr (Osyotr)]

It has been moved into a separate feature inside qtbase.

vcpkg/ports/qtbase/vcpkg.json

Lines 618 to 638 in f9ffbaa

	"windeployqt": {
	"description": "Qt Windows Deployment Tool",
	"supports": "windows",
	"dependencies": [
	{
	"name": "qtbase",
	"default-features": false,
	"features": [
	"network"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "qtbase",
	"host": true,
	"default-features": false,
	"features": [
	"windeployqt"
	]
	}
	]
	},