Requirements
Qt requires a macOS platform SDK and corresponding toolchain to be installed on the system. You can get this by installing the Xcode command line tools:
Alright, after installing Qt on Windows and building from a Windows machine, the application was able to be compiled and ran successfully with very minor differences compared to the deployment on Mac. Marking as solved. Thanks @SGaist @jsulm @J-Hilk @Ratz. Core options section refers to 3rd-party libraries, and quite often I see in different places people putting options like -qt-zlib, -qt-libpng and so on for configure.Although, if you won’t set them, it doesn’t mean that you won’t have those libraries in your build - they just will be included with default values: some with Qt implementations and some with system ones.
- Qt Designer is a tool for quickly building graphical user interfaces with widgets from the Qt GUI framework. It gives you a simple drag-and-drop interface for laying out components such as buttons, text fields, combo boxes and more.
- I developed on a Mac and then my buddy ported it to Linux - he usually had to make a number of changes to the code to get it to function equivalently and look the same on Linux. This was with Qt 5.1. The App wasn't even stressing Qt much - mostly a set of form-like UIs that read and wrote to XML for the user to create the XML document.
Or by downloading and installing Xcode.
Compiler Versions
Qt for macOS is tested and compatible with several versions of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) and Clang (as available from Xcode). For a list of tested configurations, refer to the Reference Configuration section of the supported platforms page.
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QDoc Dependencies
Since version 5.11, QDoc uses Clang to parse C++ code. If you wish to build QDoc manually, refer to Installing Clang for QDoc for specific build requirements.
Steps for Building
The following instructions describe how to build Qt from the source package. You can download the Qt 5 sources from the Downloads page. For more information, visit the Getting Started with Qt page.
Step 1: Install the License File (Commercially Licensed Qt Only)
If you use Qt with a commercial license, the Qt tools look for a local license file. If you are using a binary installer or the commercial Qt Creator, your licenses are automatically fetched and stored in your local user profile ($HOME/Library/Application Support/Qt/qtlicenses.ini file).
If you do not use any binary installer or Qt Creator, you can download the respective license file from your Qt Account Web portal and save it to your user profile as $HOME/.qt-license. If you prefer a different location or file name, you need to set the QT_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the respective file path.
Step 2: Unpack the Archive
Unpack the archive if you have not done so already. For example, if you have the qt-everywhere-opensource-src-%VERSION%.tar.gz package, type the following commands at a command line prompt:
This creates the directory /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-%VERSION% containing the files from the archive.
Step 3: Build the Qt Library
To configure the Qt library for your machine type, run the ./configure script in the package directory.
By default, Qt is configured for installation in the /usr/local/Qt-%VERSION% directory, but this can be changed by using the -prefix option.
By default, Qt is built as a framework, but you can built it as a set of dynamic libraries (dylibs) by specifying the -no-framework option.
Qt can also be configured to be built with debugging symbols. This process is described in detail in the Debugging Techniques document.
Wallpaper for mac 13. The Configure Options page contains more information about the configure options.
To create the library and compile all the examples and tools, type:
If -prefix is outside the build directory, you need to install the library, examples, and tools in the appropriate place. To do this, type:
This command requires that you have administrator access on your machine.
Note: There is a potential race condition when running make install with multiple jobs. It is best to only run one make job (-j1) for the install.
Step 4: Set the Environment Variables
In order to use Qt, some environment variables need to be extended.
This is done like this:
In .profile (if your shell is bash), add the following lines:
In .login (in case your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following line:
If you use a different shell, please modify your environment variables accordingly.
Qt is now installed.
Step 5: Build the Qt Documentation
For the Qt reference documentation to be available in Qt Assistant, you must build it separately:
Limitations
Fink
If you have installed the Qt for X11 package from Fink, it will set the QMAKESPEC environment variable to darwin-g++. This will cause problems when you build the Qt for macOS package. To fix this, simply unset your QMAKESPEC or set it to macx-g++ before you run configure. To get a fresh Qt distribution, run make confclean on the command-line.
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Qt for Mac OS X has some requirements that are given in more detail in the Qt for Mac OS X Requirements document.
The following instructions describe how to install Qt from the source package.
For the binary package, simply double-click on the Qt.mpkg and follow the instructions to install Qt. You can later run the uninstall-qt.py script to uninstall the binary package. The script is located in /Developer/Tools and must be run as root.
Note: Do not run the iPhone simulator while installing Qt. The iPhone simulator conflicts with the package installer.
Step 1: Install the License File (commercial editions only)
If you have the commercial edition of Qt, install your license file as $HOME/.qt-license.
For the open source version you do not need a license file.
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Unpack the archive if you have not done so already. For example, if you have the qt-everywhere-opensource-src-%VERSION%.tar.gz package, type the following commands at a command line prompt:
This creates the directory /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-%VERSION% containing the files from the archive.
Step 2: Build the Qt Library
To configure the Qt library for your machine type, run the ./configure script in the package directory.
By default, Qt is configured for installation in the /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-%VERSION% directory, but this can be changed by using the -prefix option.
Type ./configure -help to get a list of all available options.
Note that you will need to specify -universal if you want to build universal binaries, and also supply a path to the -sdk option if your development machine has a PowerPC CPU. By default, Qt is built as a framework, but you can built it as a set of dynamic libraries (dylibs) by specifying the -no-framework option.
Qt can also be configured to be built with debugging symbols. This process is described in detail in the Debugging Techniques document.
To create the library and compile all the demos, examples, tools, and tutorials, type:
If -prefix is outside the build directory, you need to install the library, demos, examples, tools, and tutorials in the appropriate place. To do this, type:
This command requires that you have administrator access on your machine.
Note: There is a potential race condition when running make install with multiple jobs. It is best to only run one make job (-j1) for the install.
If you later need to reconfigure and rebuild Qt from the same location, ensure that all traces of the previous configuration are removed by entering the build directory and typing make confclean before running configure again.
Step 3: Set the Environment variables
In order to use Qt, some environment variables need to be extended.
This is done like this:
In .profile (if your shell is bash), add the following lines:
In .login (in case your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following line:
If you use a different shell, please modify your environment variables accordingly.
That's all. Qt is now installed.
Qt Demos and Examples
If you are new to Qt, we suggest that you take a look at the demos and examples to see Qt in action. Run the Qt Examples and Demos either by typing qtdemo on the command line or through the desktop's Start menu.
You might also want to try the following links:
Qt Build Macdeployqt
We hope you will enjoy using Qt. Good luck!
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