I built and installed almost all of Qt from source - where is Qt Creator?
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I am really embarrassed at this point with how much trouble I am having getting a working Qt installation. I have downloaded, configured, built, and successfully installed virtually all (just not the web engine submodule) of Qt 5.15.2 on my Mac. In the installed bin dir I see the Assistant, Designer, and Linguist apps - but no Qt Creator. Is this not part of a "full" Qt install? What am I missing here? I searched on the web for quite a while but only found articles on how to use it or how to download it as part of a complete Qt prebuilt install.
Please, what am I missing here?
Thank you.
-DS
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I am really embarrassed at this point with how much trouble I am having getting a working Qt installation. I have downloaded, configured, built, and successfully installed virtually all (just not the web engine submodule) of Qt 5.15.2 on my Mac. In the installed bin dir I see the Assistant, Designer, and Linguist apps - but no Qt Creator. Is this not part of a "full" Qt install? What am I missing here? I searched on the web for quite a while but only found articles on how to use it or how to download it as part of a complete Qt prebuilt install.
Please, what am I missing here?
Thank you.
-DS
@Douglas_A_Scott said in I built and installed almost all of Qt from source - where is Qt Creator?:
no Qt Creator. Is this not part of a "full" Qt install?
Nope, it is separate from Qt because it is a huge application and its release schedule is not tied to Qt's release schedule. (In contrast, every new release of Qt comes with a new copy of Qt Designer, even though it hasn't really changed for years) Plus, it is not strictly necessary to have Qt Creator in order to create and build Qt apps.
You can get Qt Creator's source code from https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator
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@Douglas_A_Scott said in I built and installed almost all of Qt from source - where is Qt Creator?:
no Qt Creator. Is this not part of a "full" Qt install?
Nope, it is separate from Qt because it is a huge application and its release schedule is not tied to Qt's release schedule. (In contrast, every new release of Qt comes with a new copy of Qt Designer, even though it hasn't really changed for years) Plus, it is not strictly necessary to have Qt Creator in order to create and build Qt apps.
You can get Qt Creator's source code from https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator
@JKSH Thank you for this information - I am most interested in the information about not needing Qt Creator. I am trying to build a pre-existing Qt app from source, and the author told me the first step was to open the .pro file with Creator. I see now that he was also a novice, and all I needed to do was run "qmake" followed by "make".
-DS
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@JKSH Thank you for this information - I am most interested in the information about not needing Qt Creator. I am trying to build a pre-existing Qt app from source, and the author told me the first step was to open the .pro file with Creator. I see now that he was also a novice, and all I needed to do was run "qmake" followed by "make".
-DS
@Douglas_A_Scott You're welcome, and I'm glad to hear that you were able to achieve your goals.
Note: It is common for people to install Qt and Qt Creator via the official installer or via their Linux distro repositories.
