[Qt-creator] Static configuration

[Adam Higerd]

M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
> I'm not sure your opinion is accurate, because I didn't face this 
> problem before. In addition to QtCreator designed to work on M$ Windows 
> and *nix... etc, so there is no proving that the ideal deployment 
> strategy for Qt/Win is M$ VS.

Note that I said "deployment." For development by all means I'd rather 
be using MinGW than MSVC. However, for deployment the MSVC compiler is 
technologically superior than the current version of MinGW's g++. It 
produces smaller, faster binaries and the runtime libraries are already 
installed on Windows XP and Vista. The best part is, Visual Studio 
Express is free -- you don't have to put down any money on the full 
version of Visual Studio.

I can't be sure you didn't face this problem before. The static linkage 
just makes your application link DIRECTLY to mingwm10.dll instead of 
indirectly via QtCore4.dll. Did you try actually deploying the 
application and Qt libraries on a system that didn't have MinGW installed?

And in reply to your other e-mail, no, you put "QMAKE_CFLAGS -= 
-mthreads" in your .pro file. You might need to do the same for 
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS; I'm not sure.

/s/ Adam