Unable to build ActiveQt tools statically, symbol conflict with windows platform plugin

Qt5AxContainerd.lib(qaxbase.obj) : error LNK2005: "bool __cdecl QVariantToVARIANT(class QVariant const &,struct tagVARIANT &,class QByteArray const &,bool)" (?QVariantToVARIANT@@YA_NAEBVQVariant@@AEAUtagVARIANT@@AEBVQByteArray@@_N@Z) already defined in qwindowsd.lib(comutils.obj)