New to QT, How do I remove dependencies to QT .dll files?

[Fazor]

Hello qt community!

I've been programming for a while in C++, and I finally discovered this awesome thing called QT. It's very beautiful, easy, and fun to use. I've been programming in Visual Studio ever since I began, but for many reasons I wanted to remove .NET from my gui applications, so I downloaded the QT creator.

I have one small issue, when I try to run built .exe files from QT, I get a bunch of errors saying that .dll files such as "Qt5Widgets.dll" being required in the same folder to run the application. I'm assuming these files are from some sort of SDK? However, I do not want to jam all of those files into the same folder as the .exe I am creating, is there any way to statically link those into the build so I can just run the .exe by itself? I've done some google searching, but again I am new to QT so I don't fully understand the whole linking process yet. If anyone could give me an in-depth answer on how I can achieve this, I will be forever grateful.

Thanks!