Qt Static and 3rd party static library

[Shabla]

Hi, up to now I've been building my application in dynamic build and I'm using QSerialDevice, distributing it with all the needed dlls. I'm building with Mingw using QtCreator on Windows XP. Now I would like to build it statically so that I don't need all those dlls anymore (libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, mingwm10.dll, QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll, and my 3rd party library SerialPort.dll).

After many research I finally got Qt to compile in static, but I didn't set the parameters right with configure so I'm going to rebuild it again. Since it takes a while I'd like to get it right before I try again.

I used "this":https://qt-project.org/wiki/How_to_build_a_static_Qt_version_for_Windows_with_gcc and "this":http://www.formortals.com/build-qt-static-small-microsoft-intel-gcc-compiler/ as a reference and came up with these steps :

@1) Edit <QTDIR>\mkspecs\win32-g++\qmake.conf:

QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = -Os -momit-leaf-frame-pointer

QMAKE_LFLAGS = -static -static-libgcc -enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc

DEFINES += QT_STATIC_BUILD

2. Edit <QTDIR>\qmake\Makefile.win32-g++

   LFLAGS = -static -static-libgcc -s

3. Configure Qt for static linking: go to <QTDIR> and run this command (it should take 5-10 minutes):

configure -static -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -no-opengl -platform win32-g++ -no-phonon -no-audio-backend -no-webkit -no-rtti -no-sql-sqlite -no-qt3support -no-libtiff -nomake examples -nomake demos -no-exceptions -no-stl -no-scripttools -no-openssl -no-style-motif -no-style-cde -no-style-cleanlooks -no-style-plastique

4. Build it. This is gonna take a while (2-3 hours).
   mingw32-make.exe@

My question is as follow: do I need to do something special for my 3rd party library (QSerialDevice) to be added to the exe (no need for the SerialPort.dll) ? Here are the lines related in my Qt Creator .pro (replace debug with release for that version) :
@INCLUDEPATH += "C:/dev/libs/qserialdevice-2.0/include"
LIBS += -L"C:/dev/libs/qserialdevice-2.0/src/debug" -lSerialPort@
and my "C:\dev\libs\qserialdevice-2.0\src\debug" folder contain both a SerialDevice.a and SerialDevice.dll.

Now when I build my program with Qt dynamic it needs the SerialPort.dll, so what are the steps to do in order to remove this dependency ?

Thanks !

[kuzulis]

Two ways:

1. You can build a statically QSerialDevice, edit src.pro
   @
   #CONFIG += dll
   CONFIG += staticlib
   @

2. You can directly use the class library, connecting them to your project through the *.pri,
   see /tests/guiapp/guiapp.pro

The easiest - way to #2.

[Shabla]

Tried the 2nd way and it works perfectly, thank you !
I also built Qt static with the above steps and everything works fine !