Issue building static Qt version

psyfl

Hi. I'm using a Windows 10 64-bit computer and I'm using Qt to develop a Qt Widgets Application. I would like to deploy the application for usage on other Windows computers. The application is a 32-bit application which I am compiling with the MSVC2017 32-bit compiler. I would like to compile the executable with static linking, so I am trying to build a static version of qt.

I have a normal version of Qt 5.12.2 installed. I downloaded Qt 5.12.1 everywhere source and extracted it to C:/qt/static. I then opened the x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017 and ran configure -release -static -prefix "c:/qt/static" -nomake tools -nomake tests -nomake examples -skip webengine. I have python/ruby/perl installed and all in PATH.

Then I ran nmake. However, the building process is still going on after around 2 hours. I have an i7 4790k @ 4.0GHz and I am using an SSD drive. I have no idea as to why this is taking so long and I'm wondering if I have missed out any steps/if I might get caught up in some form of infinite loop. Any help would be appreciated.

mrjj

Hi
Did you check it uses all cores for compilation ?
else it will take like a day :)

psyfl

Where exactly can I check that?

mrjj

hi
Open task manager and see if cpu usage goes to around 100%

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SGaist

Hi,

In addition to @mrjj, use jom for the compilation rather than nmake, it will parallelise things better.

psyfl

With no other processes running, right now it is at about 15% and sometimes going up to around 25%. I'm not sure how I can increase CPU utilisation. By the way, sorry for slow responses but I can only post once per 10 minutes.

psyfl

I'm now using jom instead of nmake and my CPU utilisation is much higher. Hopefully it will go much faster now. Thanks everyone for the help.

mrjj

@psyfl
Oh, it will by large. unless you have single core or dual core cpu :)