How to use static build of Qt to create a statically-linked release for Windows?

Question

How am I supposed to use my static build of Qt in my project directory? There seems to be a missing step in the official documentation between building a static version of Qt and then building a statically-linked version of your app with that static version of Qt.

Answer 1

There's no explicit step, since all you need to do is use that statically-compiled Qt to build your project. That's all. From the command line, simply invoke the statically-compiled Qt's qmake and your project will statically link to Qt. From Qt Creator, add the statically-compiled Qt's kit to your project's configurations and build for it.

Of course you must first add that Qt version to Qt Creator, and add it to a new kit. Note that as far as both Qt and Qt Creator is concerned, a "Qt version" is a synonym for a build of Qt. So if you have 4 different builds of Qt 5.3.1 (say dynamic multithreaded, dynamic single threaded, static multithreaded, and static), they are considered different Qt versions. Because a "Qt version", as used throughout, has nothing whatsoever to do with the sources of Qt, just with a build of Qt. If all you do is download a source package of Qt, you have no Qt versions yet :)