Devastating Deployment Issues

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I really am totally clueless after reading http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtd...t-windows.html and many similar articles and googeling the last 4 hours. I cant deploy my app. I wrote it in QT5.1.0 and I am completely confused... please help me.

- I am using Qt5.1.0
- MS Visual Studio 2012
- QExtSerialPort
- QCustomPlot

I tried the static and the shared library approach, but failed on both - usually in the first line of the tutorial. For example where it says:

Now run qmake to create a new makefile for the application, and do a clean build to create the dynamically linked executable:

nmake clean
qmake -config release
nmake

So I do: WIN+R, Enter -> CMD -> Enter
If I type "nmake clean" I get:Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
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c:\Users\rt\Desktop\GUI>nmake clean
Der Befehl "nmake" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.

Which means Command nmake cannot be found in english.

My program is called GUI and I can execute it just fine from inside the QT Creator. When I press STRG + R I see an folder being created in my programs directory, which is called build-GUI-Desktop_Qt_5_1_0_MSVC2012_64bit-Release - but I cant open the GUI.exe which is located there. It is only 383Kb big too. Which is awkwardly small I think, bc some of the to be included files are already bigger. I just want one big executable with all I need inside. I will update this thread if I try / find out more.