All QT Quick Application crash after 3 seconds - qt

Question

I can run a boilerplate QT Quick Application (empty project) fine - the window shows and does not crash. If I then update the QML with some simple controls and run the application it shows the window for 3 seconds then crashes. This problem occurs when I run the example QT Quick application projects aswell.
The application output window shows:
The program has unexpectedly finished.
The process was ended forcefully.
What is going wrong and how can I fix this?
Information:
I am on Windows 10 64bit, using QT Creator, the project using QMake and mininum QT version allowed is 5.9
I am compiling in Debug mode using Desktop QT 5.11.1 MSVC2017 64bit. Note I am not able to compile in any other settings (MSVC2015, MinGW) - I get errors. If I compile in Release mode I still experience the same crash.
Desktop QT 5.11.1 MSVC2017 64bit does have an exclamation mark next to it No debugger setup
The following QML works:
import QtQuick 2.11
import QtQuick.Window 2.11
Window {
visible: true
width: 640
height: 480
title: qsTr("Hello World")
}
This causes it to crash:
import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Window 2.2
import QtQuick.Controls 2.3
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.3
ApplicationWindow {
visible: true
width: 640
height: 480
title: qsTr("Hello World")
menuBar: MenuBar {
Menu {
title: 'File'
}
}
header: ToolBar {
RowLayout {
}
}
TextArea {
id: area
anchors.fill: parent
}
}

Answer 1

I was getting this crash too, with only a rectangle on the Window.
For me the crash was fixed by adding the following line before instantiating my QGuiApplication :
QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseOpenGLES);
from the docs, on windows, this tells qt to use the angle. Angle is driver that translates opengl into directx
you can read more about the diferent driver option on
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-requirements.html