Say Yes to 'Are you able to comply with the obligations of the LGPL v3 (or GPL v2/v3) and/or does your corporation allow open source usage?' Say Yes to 'Are you prepared to make your application source code publicly available?' To get the Open Source version select 'Open source distribution under an LGPL or GPL license' The website will ask you a few questions to determine whether you want the Open Source or commercial versions of Qt. ICS recommends Qt Commercial for support, maximum IP protection, and because we all should support the community. (The Qt Company offers a free 30-trial version of Qt Commercial.) Installation Stepsįire up your web browser and go to. We will install the Open Source version of Qt 5.7.0 using the MinGW C++ compiler and the Qt Creator IDE. Installation should be similar if you use a different version of Windows or a different version of Qt. We will use the free MinGW compiler as it makes the setup easy, coming as part of the Qt install. You will need at least 5 GB of free disk space and an Internet connection in order to download the installer and Qt components. Let's get started! Assumptions and Prerequisitesįor this example I'll assume you are running Windows 10. I'll walk you step by step through the process of getting a Qt development environment running on Windows, providing lots of screen shots to guide you. If you struggle with initially getting Qt set up for development with the Qt Creator IDE and a C++ compiler, this post is for you.

Feedback from our recent Qt for Beginners webinar series indicated a need for some basic tutorials for beginners.

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