Desktop Platforms | Qt Creator Manual

- Qt Creator Manual
- Desktop Platforms
- Qt Creator Manual 4.13.0

Supported Platforms ◦ Embedded Platforms

# Desktop Platforms

Qt Creator is available in binary packages for the following operating systems:

- Linux
- macOS
- Windows

You can use Qt Creator to build, run, debug, and analyze applications on these platforms.

## Linux

(K)Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (64-bit) or later is supported.

To build Qt applications using Qt Creator on Linux, you usually need the following:

- g++
- make
- libglib2.0-dev
- libSM-dev
- libxrender-dev
- libfontconfig1-dev
- libxext-dev
- libfreetype6-dev
- libx11-dev
- libxcursor-dev
- libxfixes-dev
- libxft-dev
- libxi-dev
- libxrandr-dev
- libgl-dev and libglu-dev if you use Qt OpenGL (deprecated in Qt 5) or Qt GUI OpenGL functions

## macOS

macOS 10.13 or later is supported with the Xcode tools for your macOS version available in the Mac App Store.

## Windows

Windows 7 or later is supported.

Note: Some Qt Creator plugins rely on Direct3D (part of DirectX). You might have to manually enable support for it if you are running Windows in a Virtual Machine. For more information, see Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) and Prepare the Host System to Use DirectX 9 Accelerated Graphics.

## Compiling from Source

To build Qt Creator from the source, see the requirements and instructions in the readme file that is located in the source repository.

Supported Platforms ◦ Embedded Platforms