I've developed a small application using Qt Creator 2.4.1 (based on Qt 4.7.4).
I want to deploy it for Windows to several friends of mine that do not use Qt, and want to make the process simple, so I strongly prefer static linking (a single exe file containing everything needed).
Qt documentation says:
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Before we can build our application we must make sure that Qt is built statically. To do this, go to a command prompt and type the following:
cd C:\path\to\Qt
configure -static <any other options you need>
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Unfortunately I searched my entire hard disk and did not find any "configure" executable. The PC had Win7 OS.
Since this looked rather crazy, I repeated the search for "configure" on another PC, having a different operating system (Win XP), and the same Qt creator/Qt version installed, but the result was the same.
I searched the Qt forum for anyone having a similar problem in the forum, but did not find anyone.
Some people in the forum mention ways to require static build without resorting to the configure command, just adding something in the .pro file (a solution that I would prefer), but none that I tried worked.
Can someone help?
Thanks
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