Using QtCharts in version 5.5.1

Alper Karakus

Hello,

As a very new member of Qt family, I'm getting into the Qt world step by step :) My question for you is,

I'm trying to make widgets for a platform that is developed in Qt framework. The platform I'm trying to create widgets for has support for Qt widgets but only for the 5.5.1 msvc 2013 64 bit compiler.

I want to create a widget using "QtCharts" library which is available in version 5.8.

I looked for a way to get the library from github and statically build it and use it in version 5.5.1 but could not succeeded.

Also tried to include the library in .pro file; even the QtCharts headers and libs is reached from the source code, I cannot use QtCharts instances on the platform that I'm creating widgets for. /its basically not loaded/

Can you please give me a little help about what do I need to look for?

Best Regards

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

First thing, the official code repositories can be found at https://code.qt.io, GitHub is just a mirror.

You should build and install the module like you would any other Qt module. Something like.:

mkdir build_qtcharts
pushd build_qtcharts
/path/to/Qt5.5.1/bin/qmake /path/to/QtCharts
make
make install
popd

And then in your .pro file:

QT += charts