title: Cannot deploy my Quick 2 app to a Windows system without Qt installed
body: <p>I am using Qt 5 with Visual Studio compiler. I have a Quick 2 application with a c++ backend.</p>
  
  <p>I have bundled together my exe, a bunch of dll files, and <em>all</em> of the plugins from Qt, into a single folder. When I run the exe in this folder on a system with Qt installed but Qt Creator closed, it runs fine. When I run it on a system without Qt installed, it does not crash, but it just opens a small 1-inch square window that is all white, nothing else.</p>
  
  <p>I am using a Qt resource file for the QML, so there are no standalone QML files that could be getting missed by the exe. Again, it runs fine on a system with Qt, so what else could I be missing? Dependency walker does not report any problems.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what is in my app directory:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/xtn3Z.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I've been looking at this for hours and I cannot understand what I must be missing (or why Windows deployment is so challenging with Qt).</p>