How to build qt out of source

Question

I was searching a lot through Qt forums and Google for the last few days, but I could not find any obvious answer to this question.

I found the -prefix opti

Answer 1

Basically, you just have to run configure.exe from your build directory. For example:

mkdir \qt\4.5.2-build
cd \qt\4.5.2-build
set PATH=%cd%\bin;%PATH%
\qt\4.5.2-sources\configure.exe -platform win32-msvc2005

Where sources are in \qt\4.5.2-sources, that would cause the build to go into \qt\4.5.2-build on the current drive.

Also, you must have perl in your PATH, ActiveState Perl is suggested.

I had not previously heard of this limitation where the build and source directories must be at the same level. If you hit this problem you could try working around it by creating a symbolic link (see mklink command).