Problems building Qt 5.9.4 from source on Windows

[AndyBrice]

I did the following:

Install Visual Studio 2017
started a 'x86 native tools command prompt for VS 2017' cmd shell
downloaded and unzipped https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.9/5.9.4/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.4.zip to S:\Qt\5.9.4

cd S:\Qt\5.9.4

set QTDIR=S:\Qt\5.9.4\qtbase

set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%PATH%

configure -opensource -confirm-license -opengl desktop -skip qtwebengine -nomake tests -nomake examples -no-plugin-manifests -debug-and-release -platform win32-msvc -verbose

nmake

Everything seemed to work ok. But when I try to build my application (which used SVG) I get:

Unknown module(s) in QT:svg

When I look at S:\Qt\5.9.4 I see there are qt5svg.dll files in:
S:\Qt\5.9.4\qtsvg\bin
S:\Qt\5.9.4\qtsvg\lib

But they haven't been copied to S:\Qt\5.9.4\qtbase\bin . In fact S:\Qt\5.9.4\qtbase\bin looks rather empty.

I've wasted hours on this. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

[aha_1980]

@AndyBrice

did you run nmake install?

[AndyBrice]

No. You don't do 'nmake install' on Windows if you are doing an 'in tree' build (the default). This is explained in the Windows build instructions somewhere.

[AndyBrice]

Alos I build Qt 5.5.1 following basically the same process, without any issues.

[AndyBrice]

I never managed to get the build from source working on Windows. I had to install from binaries. but even that was a hassle. If anyone is interested there are more details here:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2018/04/08/getting-qt-5-9-working-on-windows-eventually/

[machomani]

I have successfully build Qt 5.9 with additional argument -prefix C:\Qt5.9 while configuring and then nmake and nmake install.