Building QT on Windows with use of MinGW

[karlkar]

Hi.
I want to build qt 5.0.2 statically in order to publish my app as only one file, without any additional libraries' files.
I use Windows 7 x64 with MinGW.
I follow instructions from http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-5-from-Git

When I run
perl init-repository --no-webkit -f

I get an error:


fatal: destination path 'qtactiveqt' already exists and is not an empty directory.
git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qtactiveqt.git qtactiveqt exited with status 32768 at init-repository li
ne 302.
Qt::InitRepository::exe('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0 x5c7c48)', 'git', 'clone', 'git://gitorious.org
/qt/qtactiveqt.git', 'qtactiveqt') called at init-repository line 563
Qt::InitRepository::git_clone_one_submodule('Qt::I nitRepository=HASH(0x5c7c48)', 'qtactiveqt', 'g
it://gitorious.org/qt/qtactiveqt.git') called at init-repository line 487
Qt::InitRepository::git_clone_all_submodules('Qt:: InitRepository=HASH(0x5c7c48)') called at init-
repository line 617
Qt::InitRepository::run('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0 x5c7c48)') called at init-repository line 626


How can I fix it?

[ChrisW67]

There is no '-f' option on the init-repository script call in those instructions.
Make sure your Perl is in the path before git as outlined in the instructions.
Consider removing the offending directory

[karlkar]

-f means force - without it I have an error that repository is already init.

[ChrisW67]

-f means force - without it I have an error that repository is already init.
I would call that a clue then. Perhaps if it is already "init"-ed then you don't need a step to "init" it.
Where did you get the source code? From Git, per the Building Qt 5 from Git (http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt-5-from-Git#b50aae10a392d80cb2253ce34e686ae3) instructions, or as a tar ball?