How to create exe with linked dlls for windows

[minnew]

I'm a newbie to Qt and I wish to create a stand-alone exe for windows. From what I understand, one has to recompile Qt itself so that all the needed dlls for a project will be contained (e.g. statically bound) within the release exe for a project. I found several help documents, like http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.1/deployment-windows.html, which describe running a configure file to start the process of rebuilding Qt:

_Before we can build our application we must make sure that Qt is built statically. To do this, go to a command prompt and type the following:

cd C:\path\to\Qt
configure -static <any other options you need>__

...but I can not find any configure.exe within any of the Qt sub-directories! What am I missing here? I am using the latest 5.0 version of Qt.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to DevNet,

You have to get the sources to compile Qt and since you're using Qt 5 you can follow this "guide":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git for example

[minnew]

Thanks for the speedy reply...the process seems so arduous. Is there a reason that it can't be made simpler, e.g. simple option(s) from within the IDE for a stand-alone release? Does it have to do with licensing?

[SGaist]

You can also get the sources in a zip file in the "download page":http://qt-project.org/downloads