profile (if your shell is bash), add the following lines: PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.5/bin:$PATH PATH - to locate qmake, moc and other Qt tools In order to use Qt, some environment variables need to be extended. 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. It is best to only run one make job (-j1) for the install. Note: There is a potential race condition when running make install with multiple jobs. This command requires that you have administrator access on your machine. If -prefix is outside the build directory, you need to install the library, demos, examples, tools, and tutorials in the appropriate place. To create the library and compile all the demos, examples, tools, and tutorials, type: make This process is described in detail in the Debugging Techniques document. Qt can also be configured to be built with debugging symbols. 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. 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. configure -help to get a list of all available options. cd /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5 configure script in the package directory.īy default, Qt is configured for installation in the /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.5 directory, but this can be changed by using the -prefix option.

To configure the Qt library for your machine type, run the. This creates the directory /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5 containing the files from the archive. Tar xvf qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5.tar # unpack it Gunzip qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5.tar.gz # uncompress the archive For example, if you have the qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5.tar.gz package, type the following commands at a command line prompt: cd /tmp Unpack the archive if you have not done so already. If you have the commercial edition of Qt, install your license file as $HOME/.qt-license.įor the open source version you do not need a license file. Step 1: Install the License File (commercial editions only)

The iPhone simulator conflicts with the package installer. Note: Do not run the iPhone simulator while installing Qt. The script is located in /Developer/Tools and must be run as root. You can later run the uninstall-qt.py script to uninstall the binary package. The following instructions describe how to install Qt from the source package.įor the binary package, simply double-click on the Qt.mpkg and follow the instructions to install Qt. Qt for Mac OS X has some requirements that are given in more detail in the Qt for Mac OS X Requirements document.

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