diff --git a/support/README b/support/README
index 468f5485d9e4..e7fbacc73398 100644
--- a/support/README
+++ b/support/README
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ This directory contains build support files such as
 
 * CMake modules
 * Build scripts
+* qmake (static build with dynamic libc only)
+
diff --git a/support/fmt.pro b/support/fmt.pro
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0fb09d1b5382
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/fmt.pro
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Staticlib configuration for qmake builds
+# For some reason qmake 3.1 fails to identify source dependencies and excludes format.cc and printf.cc
+# from compilation so it _MUST_ be called as qmake -nodepend
+# A workaround is implemented below: a custom compiler is defined which does not track dependencies
+
+TEMPLATE = lib
+
+TARGET = fmt
+
+QMAKE_EXT_CPP = .cc
+
+CONFIG = staticlib warn_on c++11
+
+FMT_SOURCES = \
+    ../fmt/format.cc \
+    ../fmt/ostream.cc \
+    ../fmt/posix.cc \
+    ../fmt/printf.cc
+
+fmt.name = libfmt
+fmt.input = FMT_SOURCES
+fmt.output = ${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}$$QMAKE_EXT_OBJ
+fmt.clean = ${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}$$QMAKE_EXT_OBJ
+fmt.depends = ${QMAKE_FILE_IN}
+# QMAKE_RUN_CXX will not be expanded
+fmt.commands = $$QMAKE_CXX -c $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_WARN_ON $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE_WITH_DEBUGINFO $$QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_CXX11 ${QMAKE_FILE_IN}
+fmt.variable_out = OBJECTS
+fmt.CONFIG = no_dependencies no_link
+QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS += fmt