I need to support Windows 98. The Qt documentation claims this is possible, but there are no instructions. The distributed binaries don't run on Win98 and the majority of Qt applications I have sampled also don't. For several apps that do run on 98, I have asked authors how they did it, but the common answer is that it was accidental and they don't know what factors caused it.

In searching the forums for help, I found only guesses that turned out to be wrong. For example, one belief is that to compile for Win9x, you must build the tools and the apps on that platform. Yet, things I found to run were built on newer versions of Windows.

• What is required to build the Qt dev tools and then applications for Win98?
• How about cross-compiling from WinXP or Linux?
• Are there specific components that can't be made to run on Win98?
• Are there particular difficulties with dynamic or static linking for Win98 support?