qt@5

Deprecation date: 2026-05-19

Install command: 
brew install qt@5

Formerly known as: qt5

Cross-platform application and UI framework

https://www.qt.io/

License: GFDL-1.3-only AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-3.0-only

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/qt@5.json

Formula code: qt@5.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 5.15.18

Keg-only

Depends on:

freetype 2.14.1 Software library to render fonts
glib 2.86.2 Core application library for C
jpeg-turbo 3.1.2 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
libpng 1.6.51 Library for manipulating PNG images
libtiff 4.7.1 TIFF library and utilities
md4c 0.5.2 C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface
pcre2 10.47 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
sqlite 3.51.0 Command-line interface for SQLite
webp 1.6.0 Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm
gettext 0.26 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Requires: Xcode (build)

We agreed to the Qt open source license for you.
If this is unacceptable you should uninstall.

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/opt/qt@5

QtWebEngine is no longer included as its Chromium has unfixed vulnerabilities.

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