How to compile Qt as static

Question

I am currently writing code in Qt. How to compile the code statically?

From Qt document I came to know the following step

1) Visual Studio 2008 -> commandPro

Answer 1

You have already used the only way possible: compiling the source as static.

Some things that have a very large impact on disk size (which seems to be the problem here), with corresponding configure arguments:

1. Disable debug: -release
2. Disable modules you don't need, especially QtWebKit: -no-webkit -no-script -no-scripttools -no-qt3support -nomake demos -nomake tools -nomake examples
3. Disable LTCG support, which has the nasty side effect of generating huge static libraries: no-ltcg

These should help keep the build size to a minimum.