Building installers the long way... Note that building the installer does NOT work when Qt is configured with -developer-build. It is recommended to use the official Qt sdk packages (http://qt-project.org/downloads). Linux: qtbase, qttools, qtscript ./configure -nomake examples -nomake tests -static -release -opensource -confirm-license -prefix `pwd`/../qt-install -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-zlib -no-cups -no-icu -qt-sql-sqlite -no-c++11 actually install all of them! installer-framework (master branch) qtbase-static/bin/qmake make Run the python script with the desired target qt version and the installer-framework/bin in path.