How to build Qt510 static version on Win7?

cokefish

Any body who please give me some instructions on how to build Qt510 static on Win7.

I would like to build app without needing with deploying a lot of Qt**.dll.
I found on wiki that I must build a static version QT510 by myself.

I am using a Win7(x64) and have installed VS2012 express and Windows SDK for Windows 8
I also download
qt-windows-opensource-5.1.0-msvc2012_opengl-x86_64-offline.exe
and
qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0.zip

If I want to rebuild QT510 static version, which source I should choose?
And the thing most bothers me is I cannot select the input option of configure tool.

Please help me, the most welcomed answer is give me the detail steps and command line input.

Thank you.

sierdzio

Please mind the licensing problems while using static build of Qt. .exe package contains precompiled libraries - that is not what you need.

You need to extract the ZIP archive, then browse to the folder in cmd.exe and type:
@
configure -prefix "./qtbase" -static
nmake sub-src
@

cokefish

Why this prompt

bq. NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'sub-src'

I use the cmd window as below, or else I cannot find nmake in my env.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual Studio 2012\Visual Studio Tools\Developer Command Prompt for VS2012.lnk

sierdzio

OK, delete the last one, extract again, and now let's try the old Qt4 way:
@
configure -developer-build -static -dont-process
qtbase/bin/qmake projects.pro QT_BUILD_PARTS="libs" JAVASCRIPTCORE_JIT="yes"
nmake
@

cokefish

Yes, I found that only nmake is working

@
configure -prefix "./qtbase" -static
nmake @

I will first wait it for finishing, and then try the Qt4 way.

Thank you slerdzlo.
Thank you very much.

I will give my feedback.

sierdzio

You can also try without -prefix or -developer-build. I always add it because I'm running multiple Qt versions in parallel. But if you only want one single Qt installation, you can skip those flags (but then you need to run "nmake install" as an additional step at the end).

cokefish

Oh, I have met the problem below ,
twice.

@bq. include" -I"........\include\QtWidgets" -I"........\include\QtGui" -I"...
.....\include\QtANGLE" -I"........\include\QtCore" -I".moc\debug_static" -I
"........\mkspecs\win32-msvc2012" -Fo.obj\debug_static\ @C:\Users\HY001354\Ap
pData\Local\Temp\nmC18F.tmp
moc_languagechooser.cpp
moc_mainwindow.cpp
Generating Code...
echo 1 /* CREATEPROCESS_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID / 24 / RT_MANIFEST / "de
bug\i18n.exe.embed.manifest">debug\i18n.exe_manifest.rc
if not exist debug\i18n.exe if exist debug\i18n.exe.embed.manifest del d
ebug\i18n.exe.embed.manifest
if exist debug\i18n.exe.embed.manifest copy /Y debug\i18n.exe.embed.mani
fest debug\i18n.exe_manifest.bak
link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /DEBUG /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS "/MANIFEST
DEPENDENCY:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.
0' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='' processorArchitecture='*'" /MA
NIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:debug\i18n.exe.embed.manifest /OUT:debug\i18n.exe @C:\Users
\HY001354\AppData\Local\Temp\nmCA75.tmp
Creating library debug\i18n.lib and object debug\i18n.exp
debug\i18n.exe : fatal error LNK1180: insufficient disk space to complete link
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x49c'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.@

one is using
@configure -prefix "./qtbase" -static
nmake@

and the second is using
@configure -static
nmake@

by the way, the second time, the temporary generated files are really huge,

SGaist

Hi,

From the error, your hard drive seems to be almost full, you'll have to make some room to compile Qt

koahnig

well, what do you mean with really huge?

Obviously, you attempted several times to configure and compile Qt libs. Did you at least always do an "nmake confclean" in between?

Otherwise you might a mixture of different leftovers, which is not really helpful. Personally, I would suggest to start-over with a complete fresh setup with downloaded .zip file.

sierdzio

[quote author="koahnig" date="1375689047"]Personally, I would suggest to start-over with a complete fresh setup with downloaded .zip file. [/quote]

+1. If you want to make this super-easy for yourself in the future, use git :) Then a simple
@
git clean -dxf
@

Leaves you with a fresh repo - no need to delete old path and extract the zip again.