How to build qt out of source
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 option (not even documented on Windows) that can be supplied to configure to specify different install directory, but this is not clear separation of the sources and binaries at all, since the build is still done in the source directory and then the files needed for installation are copied to the install directoy. I tried this -prefix option, and came to some problems. (i.e It doesn't copy the .pdb files to the install directory.) Then I found