Flutter .exe Release not running on Windows

Question

When I build flutter for windows with flutter build windows it generates a .exe file with its .dll files etc. However, running that file (.exe) gives me a white screen and my app is not running normally.

Running flutter run --release -d windows however builds my app normally and I can use it.

What is wrong here that running the .exe file is not starting my app properly?

This is my release folder structure when running flutter build windows:

Running the .exe file:

on a brand new flutter project, the .exe runs fine, but I have no idea what could cause this. Even when I remove all custom code from the build method in .main the issue still appears. I think maybe it's an issue with a third party library but I don't know how I could address this. @YeasinSheikh — SwiftiSwift
– SwiftiSwift, Commented Sep 18, 2022 at 7:41
could be, you can check the package if those are supported for windows. also if something went wrong with source, you create a copy of the project and run flutter create .. — Md. Yeasin Sheikh
– Md. Yeasin Sheikh, Commented Sep 18, 2022 at 7:52

SwiftiSwift · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-18 12:38:06Z

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I was using sqflite_common_ffi on Windows and this was causing the issue. Initializing it was only valid for debug thus I had to add the sqlite3.dll to the release build folder. Then it worked fine like before when starting the .exe file.

Detailed description can be found here: https://github.com/tekartik/sqflite/issues/574

answered Sep 18, 2022 at 12:38

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Buddhika Over a year ago

you can download sqlite3.dll official file from here sqlite.org/download.html link

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