lightweight static linking qt?

[gfunk]

So I statically linked Qt to my simple app that sends a few messages over sockets then shuts down. But the resulting executable is 850KB!! (release build, no symbols) I was wondering if there might be any compiler or preprocessor options to recompile Qt, to try to cut the executable size down to below 500kb, make it a little more lightweight. I am only linking in QtCore.lib and QtNetwork.lib.