Homebrew Formulae
qt
Install command:
brew install qtAlso known as: qt6, qt@6
Cross-platform application and UI framework
License: BSD-3-Clause AND GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0) AND LGPL-3.0-only
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/qt.json
Formula code: qt.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
sonoma | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| ventura | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| ventura | ✅ | |
| Linux | x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 6.9.1 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Other versions:
| qt@5 | 5.15.16 | Cross-platform application and UI framework |
Depends on:
| assimp@5 | 5.4.3 | Portable library for importing many well-known 3D model formats |
| brotli | 1.1.0 | Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google |
| dbus | 1.16.2 | Message bus system, providing inter-application communication |
| double-conversion | 3.3.1 | Binary-decimal and decimal-binary routines for IEEE doubles |
| freetype | 2.13.3 | Software library to render fonts |
| glib | 2.84.3 | Core application library for C |
| harfbuzz | 11.2.1 | OpenType text shaping engine |
| hunspell | 1.7.2 | Spell checker and morphological analyzer |
| icu4c@77 | 77.1 | C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization |
| jasper | 4.2.5 | Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 images |
| jpeg-turbo | 3.1.1 | JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression |
| libb2 | 0.98.1 | Secure hashing function |
| libmng | 2.0.3 | MNG/JNG reference library |
| libpng | 1.6.49 | Library for manipulating PNG images |
| libtiff | 4.7.0 | TIFF library and utilities |
| md4c | 0.5.2 | C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface |
| openssl@3 | 3.5.1 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| pcre2 | 10.45 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| sqlite | 3.50.2 | Command-line interface for SQLite |
| webp | 1.5.0 | Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.0.3 | Cross-platform make |
| ninja | 1.13.0 | Small build system for use with gyp or CMake |
| node | 24.3.0 | Platform built on V8 to build network applications |
| pkgconf | 2.5.1 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| python@3.13 | 3.13.5 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| vulkan-headers | 1.4.320 | Vulkan Header files and API registry |
| vulkan-loader | 1.4.320 | Vulkan ICD Loader |
| molten-vk | 1.3.0 | Implementation of the Vulkan graphics and compute API on top of Metal |
Requires: macOS <= 14 (build), Xcode (build)
| You can add Homebrew's Qt to QtCreator's "Qt Versions" in: Preferences > Qt Versions > Link with Qt... pressing "Choose..." and selecting as the Qt installation path: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX |
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