It&#x27;s unfortunate on Linux, but on Windows and Mac, as you note, you&#x27;re already shipping your users a copy of Qt with the application.<p>And, in the modern world of big computers (desktops and laptops), it is not all that big of a deal (I don&#x27;t actually know, but I would guess it&#x27;s on the order of a few MB, maybe in the tens of MBs), and from what I can tell a lot of applications are already built statically for distribution to Windows and Mac OS X.