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
The standalone binary packages support the following platforms:
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
Prerequisites:
The installed toolchains have to match the one Qt was compiled with.
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 .
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.
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 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.
The Clang Code Model depends on the LLVM/Clang libraries. The currently supported LLVM/Clang version is 8.0.
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:
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:
Clone LLVM/Clang and checkout a suitable branch
git clone -b release_110-based --recursive https://code.qt.io/clang/llvm-project.git
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
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.
Qt Creator includes the following third-party components, we thank the authors who made this possible:
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.
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
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/.
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
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
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)
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)
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.
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 (https://www.sqlite.org) is in the Public Domain.
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:
Neither the name of The Qt Company Ltd and its Subsidiary(-ies) nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."
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.
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
The litehtml HTML/CSS rendering engine is used as a help viewer backend to display help files.
The sources can be found in:
Copyright (c) 2013, Yuri Kobets (tordex)
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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.
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.
Qt Creator ships with the following fonts licensed under OFL-1.1:
SourceCodePro-Bold.ttf
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE
Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
PREAMBLE The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS "Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting - in part or in whole - any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
PERMISSION & CONDITIONS Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users.
4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission.
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.
TERMINATION This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.
DISCLAIMER THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
Qt Creator installations deliver Qbs. Its licensing and third party attributions are listed in Qbs Manual at https://doc.qt.io/qbs/attributions.html
CMake script used by Qt Creator's auto setup of package manager dependencies.
The sources can be found in:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2018 JFrog
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.