Procedure entry point not found

[Ishmael]

Sigh. I finally got my little application running in Qt Creator, and now I'd like to create an executable, but alas, it's not working.

Here's what I did:
1) I changed the Run Configuration to Release, then built the app. Everything is fine (as long as I run from within Qt Creator).
2) Then I went to the "release/" subdirectory in my project and double-clicked the .exe

Here's what I got:
"The procedure entry point _Z21qRegisterResourceDataPKhS0_S0_ could not be located in the dynamic link library QtCore4.dll"

Any ideas what this utterly cryptic error message means?

I'm hoping to get one simple .exe file out of all of this that already has all the necessary libraries built in. Is that possible?

Thanks for your help!

[Ishmael]

Ok, so I finally found the answer (why oh why can't they make error messages more helpful?)

In order to build a simple, standalone .exe file, you have to build Qt itself statically. The directions on how to do this are below. The default is to build everything dynamically. Note that building Qt statically takes several hours.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/deployment-windows.html