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Qt
How to get up and running using Qt on Linux.
Environment
Kali Linux
Operating System
Windows 10 WSL1
Update
sudo -s apt update apt full-upgrade apt autoremove
Install
Qt5
Creator
apt install qtcreator
Base
apt install qtbase5-dev
Serial
apt install qt5serialport-examples libqt5serialport5-dev
Strip
Due to a problem with WSL1 the Qt5 core library file needs to be stripped.
strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
Qt6
Base
apt install qt6-base-dev
Strip
strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt6Core.so.6
Demo
QT Creator is used to create project files and edit source code.
qtcreator
Follow this guide to create a simple project.
Create Project...
Application (Qt)
Qt Console Application
Name: QApp
Build system: qmake
Language: <none>
Kit Selection: Desktop
main.cpp
This is clearly not a good example of a Qt application, but this code is just a demo.
#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <iostream>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
QCoreApplication App(argc, argv);
std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Qt5 make is used to create a working `Makefile' which is used to build the application.
qmake make ./QApp Hello World!
To build for Qt6, use qmake6 instead of qmake above.
