Statically building QT - Libraries are huge
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I am following the advice from this webpage: http://www.formortals.com/build-qt-static-small-microsoft-intel-gcc-compiler to try and build the libraries statically but the libraries that are being created are really large. Where some are in the order of 200 - 300MB each. A non-static link is creating files that are similar sized to the ones that are provided in the offline installer.

I am using Visual Studio 2008 to compile.

In qmake.conf I have set these:

    QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = -O1 -GL -MT -MP2
    QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE = /INCREMENTAL:NO /NODEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT"

Then I use this:

    > configure -opensource -debug-and-release -qt-libjpeg -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -nomake examples 
        -nomake demos -no-qt3support -no-scripttools -no-openssl -no-opengl -no-webkit 
        -no-phonon -no-style-motif -no-style-cde -no-style-cleanlooks -no-style-plastique 
        -no-sql-sqlite -platform win32-msvc2008
    > nmake

Am I doing something wrong or are files of this size to be expected? I tried without the `/NODEFAULTLIB` but the size was the same.