Where are your Qt sources installed? Please take time to answer this question -- I'm not asking where is your Qt Creator installed. As for make, nmake and similar tools -- these are tools not specific to Qt, so it's really out of scope of this forum to teach you about them. They are very popular programming tools tied to specific toolchains, so Google knows much about them. By the way -- you can't just read one page and expect every possible explanation to every possible question to be there. I suggest you first learn how a compilation process in general looks like and only then focus on deployment.