Problem building a .exe windows Qt app

[mikea]

I have been away from Qt for several years. However, I was able to port my Qt app (written a while back) to Qt 5.3/QCreator 3.1.2. Now I want to build a windows .exe file to run on the same computer containing Qt. I read that I need to do the following in my project directory.

nmake clean
make -config release
nmake

I am not sure if this is correct because I can't find nmake on my machine and don't know where to get the copy I need. I thought QCreator would build a .exe, but my efforts did not pay off.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Mike

[wysota]

nmake is part of visual studio, so if you are not using it, you should use make bundled with MinGW compiler that comes with Qt Creator. However it should be easiest to simply open your project in Creator, set it up and hit the build button.