How to build a static Qt 5.0.2 in windows

[Alex Hu]

Hi,
I'm a beginner of Qt. I have a project of converting the html page to png file by calling API of QtWebKit. It's very simple and I have finished it in Qt Creator. But I need to build my project to a single lib file, as that it is very easy to deploy without Qt. I know that the result lib file will very big, but it does not matter.
I work with Qt 5.0 in Windows XP SP3 and I have also VS2010.
I know that I need build a static Qt, it's very difficult and I encounter a problem, my steps are:

download and unzip

qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.2 and unzip

icu4c-51_2-Win32-msvc10

download and install:

ActivePerl-5.16.3.1603-MSWin32-x86-296746

ActivePython-2.7.2.5-win32-x86

rubyinstaller-2.0.0-p195

mingw-get-inst-20120426, Win32OpenSSL-1_0_1e

Win32OpenSSL-1_0_1e

open cmd.exe

set environment

set INCLUDE=D:\icu\include;D:\OpenSSL-Win32\include

set LIB=D:\icu\lib;D:\OpenSSL-Win32\lib

set path=%PATH%;D:\icu\bin;D:\MinGW\bin

and all environment variables are:
@ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data
CLIENTNAME=HARRY-PC
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=TEST8
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
DXSDK_DIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Administrator
INCLUDE=D:\icu\include;D:\OpenSSL-Win32\include
J2D_D3D=false
LIB=D:\icu\lib;D:\OpenSSL-Win32\lib
LOGONSERVER=\TEST8
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Utilities\Bin\x86;D:\Ruby200\bin;D:\Python27;D:\Python27\Scripts;D:\Perl\site\bin;D:\Perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;%APPDATA%\Python\Scripts;D:\icu\bin;D:\MinGW\bin;
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.py;.pyw;.RB;.RBW
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=3a09
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SESSIONNAME=RDP-Tcp#2
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=TEST8
USERNAME=Administrator
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
VS100COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools
windir=C:\WINDOWS
@

run configure -prefix D:\qt-5.0.2\qtbase -confirm-license -opensource -platform win32-g++ -opengl desktop -release -static -openssl -nomake tests -nomake examples

run mingw32-make and I got some errors:

@g++ -Wl,-s -Wl,-subsystem,console -o D:\qt-5.0.2\qtbase\bin\xmlpatterns.exe .obj/release_static/main.o .obj/release_static/qapplicationargument.o .obj/release_static/qapplicationargumentparser.o -LD:\icu\lib -LD:\OpenSSL-Win32\lib -LD:/qt-5.0.2/qtbase/lib -lQt5XmlPatterns -lQt5Network -ldnsapi -lcrypt32 -lQt5Core -lole32 -luuid -lws2_32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 -lsicuin -lsicuuc -lsicudt
d:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lsicuin
d:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lsicuuc
d:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lsicudt
collect2: ld return 1
mingw32-make[4]: *** [D:\qt-5.0.2\qtbase\bin\xmlpatterns.exe] Error 1
mingw32-make[4]: Leaving directory D:/qt-5.0.2/qtxmlpatterns/tools/xmlpatterns' mingw32-make[3]: *** [release] Error 2 mingw32-make[3]: Leaving directory D:/qt-5.0.2/qtxmlpatterns/tools/xmlpatterns'
mingw32-make[2]: *** [sub-xmlpatterns-make_first] Error 2
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory D:/qt-5.0.2/qtxmlpatterns/tools' mingw32-make[1]: *** [sub-tools-make_first] Error 2 mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory D:/qt-5.0.2/qtxmlpatterns'
mingw32-make: *** [module-qtxmlpatterns-make_first] Error 2
@

I don't know how to fix this problem. Is there some errors in my steps? Please tell me. Or is there any article about building a static Qt 5.0.2 in Windows? I have read many article in this site, but there is no a step-by-step article about build static Qt 5.

Any replay would be helpful, thank you.

[Code_ReaQtor]

AFAIK, ICU was not designed to be built statically and so is QtWebkit.

You can build Qt5 statically but you will remove webkit support.

[sierdzio]

MinGW and MSVC are not compatible compilers! So the linker is not able to link ICU compiled in MSVC with Qt compiled using MinGW.

You need to build everything with MinGW, or switch to MSVC. Also, consider using Qt 5.1, it has received many fixes in static building.

[Alex Hu]

Thanks for your reply.
Another question, if I build a static Qt without ICU, will my Qt support internationalization? In Qt 5.0, we need to build webkit individually, is right? Does it mean that ICU is just required when I build webkit?
[quote author="Code_ReaQtor" date="1369997741"]AFAIK, ICU was not designed to be built statically and so is QtWebkit.

You can build Qt5 statically but you will remove webkit support.[/quote]

[Alex Hu]

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I built everything with MinGW.
[quote author="sierdzio" date="1369997893"]MinGW and MSVC are not compatible compilers! So the linker is not able to link ICU compiled in MSVC with Qt compiled using MinGW.

You need to build everything with MinGW, or switch to MSVC. Also, consider using Qt 5.1, it has received many fixes in static building.[/quote]

[sierdzio]

No, you have clearly stated: "icu4c-51_2-Win32-msvc10" see that 'msvc10' there?

ICU is used by WebKit and QtCore. I have not compiled Qt5 statically, so I don't know the behaviour of ICU there.

[Alex Hu]

Thank you very much. I got it this time.
[quote author="sierdzio" date="1370412426"]No, you have clearly stated: "icu4c-51_2-Win32-msvc10" see that 'msvc10' there?

ICU is used by WebKit and QtCore. I have not compiled Qt5 statically, so I don't know the behaviour of ICU there.[/quote]