Windows 10 Tablet QNetworkConfigurationManager not online if WIFI (MSVC 2017)

[ekke]

after years developing apps for Android and iOS I recently added
Windows10 64 bit.
thx to Qt my QtQuickControls2 apps are running on Windows10 with less
changes in UI
will blog about this later
for my windows 10 support I only need .exe for desktop app - no UWP apps
on a fresh Windows 10 pro 64 bit I installed:
- MSVC 2017 CE
- Qt 5.12 RC - MSVC 2017
to deploy the app:
- vcvars64.bat
- windeployqt --qmldir Y:\myApp\qml
Y:\build-myApp-Desktop_Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017-Release\release
myApp.exe is working on
- my development environment (macOS 10.13.6 + Parallels VM - Windows 10
pro 64 bit)
- a customer Windows 10 pro Touch device
both connected via LAN
now the problem:
customers testing the app reporting that the app only works in LAN, but
not connected to WIFI adapters
I'm checking isOnline checking the onlineStateChanged SIGNAL from
QNetworkConfigurationManager - same as on Android
(on iOS I'm using OBJ-C ReachabilityListener)
any ideas what can be wrong in windows ?
will get a Windows 10 Tablet with WIFI next week to do more detailed tests

thx

ekke

[ekke]

in the meantime found the reason
qnativewifibearer.dll
is missed from
my_path_to_qt\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\plugins\bearer

is this a bug ?

found an older qnativewifibearer.dll in the web, copied into
release/bearer and now WIFI connection is detected

of course it's no good idea to copy a dll from the web

so my question: HowTo get an official one from Qt

thx for tips

ekke

Post by ekke
after years developing apps for Android and iOS I recently added
Windows10 64 bit.
thx to Qt my QtQuickControls2 apps are running on Windows10 with less
changes in UI
will blog about this later
for my windows 10 support I only need .exe for desktop app - no UWP apps
- MSVC 2017 CE
- Qt 5.12 RC - MSVC 2017
- vcvars64.bat
- windeployqt --qmldir Y:\myApp\qml
Y:\build-myApp-Desktop_Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017-Release\release
myApp.exe is working on
- my development environment (macOS 10.13.6 + Parallels VM - Windows 10
pro 64 bit)
- a customer Windows 10 pro Touch device
both connected via LAN
customers testing the app reporting that the app only works in LAN, but
not connected to WIFI adapters
I'm checking isOnline checking the onlineStateChanged SIGNAL from
QNetworkConfigurationManager - same as on Android
(on iOS I'm using OBJ-C ReachabilityListener)
any ideas what can be wrong in windows ?
will get a Windows 10 Tablet with WIFI next week to do more detailed tests
thx
ekke
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[Roland Winklmeier]

Post by ekke
in the meantime found the reason
qnativewifibearer.dll
is missed from
my_path_to_qt\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\plugins\bearer
is this a bug ?

Hi Ekke,

it got disabled in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/214029/ since it
was causing high pings (http://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40332) and has
no replacement yet. There are some changes in the pipeline but seemed to be
stalled since August:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/q/status:open+project:qt/qtbase+branch:dev+topic:bearerplugins,n,z

Not sure if anybody is still working on them. So that leaves you with the
only option to build Qt yourself with those plugins enabled or maybe there
is a chance to build them on top of the official binaries.

Cheers Roland