I've been playing around with various methods of building Qt and QtCreator on Windows using MinGW but I'm not really satisfied with the results, yet.

My main issue is with the way configure.exe sets up qmake to prefix $(INSTALL_ROOT) with the drive letter, and suffix it with the build directory. I've tried setting the -prefix flag to various directories like "\.", "/.", ".", "/", and "\" when running configure.exe, and it achieves the desired result in the makefiles, but the builds end up failing.

Does anybody have any advice on configuring Qt builds so that I can install them to any directory using "mingw32-make install"?

Cheers,
~ andy.f