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Qt Creator

Qt Creator is a cross-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for application developers to create applications for multiple desktop, embedded, and mobile device platforms.

The Qt Creator Manual is available at:

https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/index.html

For an overview of the Qt Creator IDE, see:

https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-overview.html

Supported Platforms

The standalone binary packages support the following platforms:

Contributing

For instructions on how to set up the Qt Creator repository to contribute patches back to Qt Creator, please check:

https://wiki.qt.io/Setting_up_Gerrit

See the following page for information about our coding standard:

https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator-extending/coding-style.html

Compiling Qt Creator

Prerequisites:

The installed toolchains have to match the one Qt was compiled with.

Linux and macOS

These instructions assume that Ninja is installed and in the PATH, Qt Creator sources are located at /path/to/qtcreator_sources, Qt is installed in /path/to/Qt, and LLVM is installed in /path/to/llvm.

Note that if you install Qt via the online installer, the path to Qt must include the version number and compiler ABI. The path to the online installer content is not enough.

See instructions on how to get LLVM.

mkdir qtcreator_build
cd qtcreator_build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G Ninja "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/Qt;/path/to/llvm" /path/to/qtcreator_sources
cmake --build .

Windows

These instructions assume that Ninja is installed and in the PATH, Qt Creator sources are located at \path\to\qtcreator_sources, Qt is installed in \path\to\Qt, and LLVM is installed in \path\to\llvm.

Note that if you install Qt via the online installer, the path to Qt must include the version number and compiler ABI. The path to the online installer content is not enough.

See instructions on how to get LLVM.

Decide which compiler to use: MinGW or Microsoft Visual Studio.

MinGW is available via the Qt online installer, for other options see https://wiki.qt.io/MinGW. Run the commands below in a shell prompt that has <path_to_mingw>\bin in the PATH.

For Microsoft Visual C++ you can use the "Build Tools for Visual Studio". Also install the "Debugging Tools for Windows" from the Windows SDK installer. We strongly recommend using the 64-bit version and 64-bit compilers on 64-bit systems. Open the x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS <version> from the start menu items that were created for Visual Studio, and run the commands below in it.

md qtcreator_build
cd qtcreator_build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G Ninja "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/Qt;/path/to/llvm" \path\to\qtcreator_sources
cmake --build .

Qt Creator can be registered as a post-mortem debugger. This can be done in the options page or by running the tool qtcdebugger with administrative privileges passing the command line options -register/unregister, respectively. Alternatively, the required registry entries

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug

can be modified using the registry editor regedt32 to contain

qtcreator_build\bin\qtcdebugger %ld %ld

When using a self-built version of Qt Creator as post-mortem debugger, it needs to be able to find all dependent Qt-libraries and plugins when being launched by the system. The easiest way to do this is to create a self-contained Qt Creator by installing it and installing its dependencies. See "Options" below for details.

Note that unlike on Unix, you cannot overwrite executables that are running. Thus, if you want to work on Qt Creator using Qt Creator, you need a separate installation of it. We recommend using a separate, release-built version of Qt Creator to work on a debug-built version of Qt Creator.

Options

If you do not have Ninja installed and in the PATH, remove -G Ninja from the first cmake call. If you want to build in release mode, change the build type to -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release. You can also build with release optimizations but debug information with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo.

Installation is not needed. It is however possible, using

cmake --install . --prefix /path/to/qtcreator_install

To create a self-contained Qt Creator installation, including all dependencies like Qt and LLVM, additionally run

cmake --install . --prefix /path/to/qtcreator_install --component Dependencies

Building for Sailfish SDK

Building Qt Creator for the Sailfish SDK is done using tools, which are available in a github repo:

https://github.com/sailfishos/sdk-build-tools.git

Before building Qt Creator, you must build the prerequisite libraries (ICU, Qt and LLVM/Clang). In the abovementioned repository you can find tools for building each of them: buildicu.sh, buildqt5.sh and buildllvm.sh. Each of the build tools provide help when executed with the '--help' argument.

Qt Creator itself is built with buildqtc.sh, which also provides help with the '--help' argument. A typical command for building could be:

./buildqtc.sh -g -v SailfishSDK -vp 'Sailfish SDK' -u sdk-test

This will build also gdb and the build results will be uploaded to upload host in a directory sdk-test.

Getting LLVM/Clang for the Clang Code Model

The Clang Code Model depends on the LLVM/Clang libraries. The currently supported LLVM/Clang version is 8.0.

Prebuilt LLVM/Clang packages

Prebuilt packages of LLVM/Clang can be downloaded from https://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/libclang/

This should be your preferred option because you will use the version that is shipped together with Qt Creator (with backported/additional patches). In addition, MinGW packages for Windows are faster due to profile-guided optimization. If the prebuilt packages do not match your configuration, you need to build LLVM/Clang manually.

If you use the MSVC compiler to build Qt Creator the suggested way is:

  1. Download both MSVC and MinGW packages of libclang.
  2. Use the MSVC version of libclang during the Qt Creator build.
  3. Prepend PATH variable used for the run time with the location of MinGW version of libclang.dll.
  4. Launch Qt Creator.

Building LLVM/Clang manually

You need to install CMake in order to build LLVM/Clang.

Build LLVM/Clang by roughly following the instructions at http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#git-mirror:

  1. Clone LLVM/Clang and checkout a suitable branch

      git clone -b release_110-based --recursive https://code.qt.io/clang/llvm-project.git

  2. Build and install LLVM/Clang

      mkdir build
  cd build

    For Linux/macOS:

      cmake \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -D LLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
    -D LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;clang-tools-extra" \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<installation location> \
    ../llvm-project/llvm
  cmake --build . --target install

    For Windows:

      cmake ^
    -G Ninja ^
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
    -D LLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON ^
    -D LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;clang-tools-extra" ^
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<installation location> ^
    ..\llvm-project\llvm
  cmake --build . --target install

Clang-Format

The ClangFormat plugin depends on the additional patch

https://code.qt.io/cgit/clang/llvm-project.git/commit/?h=release_100-based&id=9b992a0f7f160dd6c75f20a4dcfcf7c60a4894df

While the plugin builds without it, it might not be fully functional.

Note that the plugin is disabled by default.

Third-party Components

Qt Creator includes the following third-party components, we thank the authors who made this possible:

YAML Parser yaml-cpp (MIT License)

https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp

QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/yaml-cpp

Copyright (c) 2008-2015 Jesse Beder.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

KSyntaxHighlighting

Syntax highlighting engine for Kate syntax definitions

This is a stand-alone implementation of the Kate syntax highlighting engine. It's meant as a building block for text editors as well as for simple highlighted text rendering (e.g. as HTML), supporting both integration with a custom editor as well as a ready-to-use QSyntaxHighlighter sub-class.

Distributed under the:

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The source code of KSyntaxHighlighting can be found here: https://cgit.kde.org/syntax-highlighting.git QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/syntax-highlighting https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/libs/3rdparty/syntax-highlighting

Clazy

https://github.com/KDE/clazy

Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Clazy Team

Distributed under GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 (LGPL2).

Integrated with patches from http://code.qt.io/cgit/clang/clang-tools-extra.git/.

LLVM/Clang

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

Copyright (C) 2003-2019 LLVM Team

Distributed under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (NCSA), see https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/llvm/LICENSE.TXT

With backported/additional patches from https://code.qt.io/clang/llvm-project.git

Reference implementation for std::experimental::optional

https://github.com/akrzemi1/Optional

QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/optional

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Andrzej Krzemienski

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0 (see accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or a copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

The idea and interface is based on Boost.Optional library authored by Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal

Implementation for std::variant

https://github.com/mpark/variant

QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/variant

Copyright Michael Park, 2015-2017

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE.md or copy at http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Implementation for std::span

https://github.com/tcbrindle/span

QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/span

Copyright Tristan Brindle, 2018

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE.md or copy at http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Open Source front-end for C++ (license MIT), enhanced for use in Qt Creator

Roberto Raggi roberto.raggi@gmail.com

QtCreator/src/shared/cplusplus

Copyright 2005 Roberto Raggi roberto@kdevelop.org

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE KDEVELOP TEAM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Open Source tool for generating C++ code that classifies keywords (license MIT)

Roberto Raggi roberto.raggi@gmail.com

QtCreator/src/tools/3rdparty/cplusplus-keywordgen

Copyright (c) 2007 Roberto Raggi roberto.raggi@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

SQLite, in-process library that implements a SQL database engine

SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org) is in the Public Domain.

ClassView and ImageViewer plugins

Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.

All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2016 Denis Mingulov.

Contact: http://www.qt.io

This file is part of Qt Creator.

You may use this file under the terms of the BSD license as follows:

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Source Code Pro font

Copyright 2010, 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. All Rights Reserved. Source is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

The font and license files can be found in QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/fonts.

JSON Library by Niels Lohmann

Used by the Chrome Trace Format Visualizer plugin instead of QJson because of QJson's current hard limit of 128 Mb object size and trace files often being much larger.

The sources can be found in QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/json.

The class is licensed under the MIT License:

Copyright © 2013-2019 Niels Lohmann

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The class contains the UTF-8 Decoder from Bjoern Hoehrmann which is licensed under the MIT License (see above). Copyright © 2008-2009 Björn Hoehrmann bjoern@hoehrmann.de

The class contains a slightly modified version of the Grisu2 algorithm from Florian Loitsch which is licensed under the MIT License (see above). Copyright © 2009 Florian Loitsch

litehtml

The litehtml HTML/CSS rendering engine is used as a help viewer backend to display help files.

The sources can be found in:

gumbo

The litehtml HTML/CSS rendering engine uses the gumbo parser.

Copyright 2010, 2011 Google

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

gumbo/utf8.c

The litehtml HTML/CSS rendering engine uses gumbo/utf8.c parser.

Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Bjoern Hoehrmann bjoern@hoehrmann.de

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

SourceCodePro fonts

Qt Creator ships with the following fonts licensed under OFL-1.1: