[Qt-creator] Static configuration

Adam Higerd ahigerd at timeips.com
Wed Feb 11 18:46:40 CET 2009


M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
>> yesterday I re-built Qt with -static option and after 7 hours it built 
>> successfully, but I noticed that all generated applications need 
>> mingwm10.dll, while last time I didn't face this problem. Could you 
>> tell me why?
> Do you have any idea about a solution for the problem?

This is normal. There's no good way to link mingwm10.dll statically, but 
Qt requires it when built with MinGW.

The ideal deployment strategy for Qt/Win is to use Visual Studio with a 
static Qt build; Windows ships with the necessary runtime dependencies 
for MSVC applications.


/s/ Adam



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