How to deploy a Qt application

Question

So now I can make a .exe of my application. Now how do I get my application ready to deploy for windows?

Answer 1

TrollTech has a page for that, see here

Answer 2

I am having problems to deploy my QT application, developed with Visual Studio. There is this link

http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/faqs/why-does-a-statically-built-qt-use-the-dynamic-visual-studio-runtime-libraries-do-i-need-to-deploy-those-with-my-application

that is contradicting to the link posted by epatel, saying that it is not recommended to link statically. Therefore I have to distribute the VS DLLs as well but this has to go through the winsxs (worst than DLL hell) or with a manifest bypass. I was not able to put a manifest for the QTcore4.dll and QTGui4.dll that call the msvcr80.dll

My application run on the deleloper's PC, but not in new XP or Vista. Thank you Microsoft for creating a new type of mess with the winsxs.

I am running out of ideas..... Any advice is most welcome.

Mike