qt@5
Deprecation date: 2026-05-19
Install command:
brew install qt@5Formerly known as: qt5
Cross-platform application and UI framework
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 | ✅ | |
| ventura | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| ventura | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ | |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 5.15.17 |
Keg-only
Depends on:
| freetype | 2.14.1 | Software library to render fonts |
| glib | 2.86.1 | Core application library for C |
| jpeg-turbo | 3.1.2 | JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression |
| libpng | 1.6.50 | 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 | 3.50.4 | 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:
| ninja | 1.13.1 | Small build system for use with gyp or CMake |
| node | 25.1.0 | Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment |
| pkgconf | 2.5.1 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| python@3.13 | 3.13.9 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
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 |
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