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

IIRC on Windows, you have to do a sandbox install, you can't do the UNIX-typical "make install".

There are two options usually for building Qt, -prefix-install and -prefix /foo

You pick one, so if -prefix doesn't allow you to type make install, then I guess on Windows you have to use the -prefix-install route, which is a sandboxed install to the directory you extract Qt to.

I'm guessing you didn't try make install? So try that. It should install Qt to a separate directory away from the sources.