Thanks to d_stranz and ChrisW67 for your response. Since I am a newbie, I think I will pursue both avenues to Windows deployment, just for the experience and learning opportunity. Since I am so far along this static path, I want to spend a few more days trying it before branching off to the shared libraries process.
Last night I had another look at the PS script, and I found this reference:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/88891/prob...e-of-my-builds
I took the suggestion for modifying the PS script and tried again. This time no error messages have been posted, but the script "hangs". The last line I see is:
Info: creating stash file C:\Qt\Static\src\qt-everywhere-src-5.14.1\.qmake.stash
While investigating this problem, I found this reference:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/104238/con...h-file-forever
(which I do not understand), and this reference:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ine-option-c11
which seems to suggest that in the call to qmake, the "-c++11" flag is at fault. But I have no idea how to "make" the Qt static build except to use the PS script. I suspect that there are some very minor inaccuracies in the PS script due to some system upgrades which have taken place since it was written. In fact, this post suggests that I have found and corrected some of these already. But I have no idea how to produce a 100% correct PS script that will do the static install for me. As mentioned, any assistance will be greatly appreciated!