Building QT Staticly - QT 4.7.0 + WinXP + MinGW

[slava]

Hello! I have spent about a week trying to find out correct options to build my QT staticly. I made a nice program that is ready for distribution and I would like to make everyting in one file so I just give this one file to people and it will run on their Windows with no any other files needed. I managed to do such things in past with my previous programs on previous QT versions but this time I got stuck for a while.

The QT version is 4.7.0 (x32). First I got error on builidng uic and found on the Forum to use "-no-qt3support" option. That helped. But now I'm getting an error on my program compilation

c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x8e0f): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x9443): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x9a6b): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qwhatsthis.o):qwhatsthis.cpp:(.text+0xfc): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qDeleteInEventHandlerP7QObject'

c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x8e0f): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x9443): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qapplication.o):qapplication.cpp:(.text+0x9a6b): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qt_call_post_routinesv' 
c:\Qt\2010.04\qt\lib/libQtGui.a(qwhatsthis.o):qwhatsthis.cpp:(.text+0xfc): undefined reference to `_imp___Z21qDeleteInEventHandlerP7QObject'

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I have also tried "-no-webkit" option but it didn't help.

So the last thing I did:

configure -static -no-qt3support

configure -static -no-qt3support

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(20-30 minutes compilations)

mingw32-make sub-src

mingw32-make sub-src

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(another 5-7 hours)

No errors, but can't compile the program giving the above errors during the program compilation state. Please help.

[SkylineBob]

Do you get any build issues? Any pieces of code highlighted?
I'm a beginner too but it sounds like the source file qapplication.cpp has something that isn't included in the header file.

[slava]

Thank you for the idea. I have just checked that but nothing highlighted and it seems a valid function, I also checked my code and included everything possible in the header file but it didn't help...

[slava]

I have read some more posts on this subject and now done the following:

in qapplication.cpp and qwhatsthis.cpp I changed "Q_DECL_IMPORT extern" with "Q_CORE_EXPORT" which helped to get rid of the error.

Then I did

mingw32-make distclean
configure -static -no-qt3support -no-webkit -no-phonon -no-s60
mingq32-make sub-src

mingw32-make distclean
configure -static -no-qt3support -no-webkit -no-phonon -no-s60
mingq32-make sub-src

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It went fine all the way through and then I was able to compile my application but... it is not static! It asks for mingwm10.dll, libcc_s_dw2-1.dll etc. if ran on a diffent computer. I'm sure someone has a clue on what is going on here!

[saa7_go]

It went fine all the way through and then I was able to compile my application but... it is not static! It asks for mingwm10.dll, libcc_s_dw2-1.dll etc. if ran on a diffent computer. I'm sure someone has a clue on what is going on here!

Maybe, this would help.