App Creator is a modified fork of the Qt Creator IDE. It is the basis of Mbt Creator, an academic and non-commercial tool for model based testing. This modified fork of Qt Creator is licensed under LGPLv2.1, the same license as the original source code and as required by Qt.
The original README of the forked Qt Creator repository is presented below:
Qt Creator is a cross-platform IDE for development with the Qt framework.
The standalone binary packages support the following platforms:
Windows XP SP2 or later (K)Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (32-bit and 64-bit) or later Mac OS 10.6 or later
Building the sources requires Qt 4.8.0 or later.
Prerequisites:
- Qt 4.8.0 or later
- On Windows:
- ActiveState Active Perl
- MinGW or Visual Studio
- jom
- On Mac: Xcode
The installed toolchains have to match the one Qt was compiled with.
You can build Qt Creator with
cd $SOURCE_DIRECTORY
qmake -r
make (or mingw32-make or nmake or jom, depending on your platform)
Note: If you get "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." on Mac OS X, you need to additionally pass "-spec macx-g++" to qmake.
Installation ("make install") is not needed. It is however possible, using
make install INSTALL_ROOT=$INSTALL_DIRECTORY
The Qt Quick Designer and the QNX plugin, and on Windows the Utils library,use private headers of Qt. These private headers always end with an "_p.h". Digia and the Qt Project do not promise to keep these files or APIs binary or source compatible between releases. This means that when compiled, Qt Creator has a dependency to the exact Qt version it was compiled with. Running Qt Creator against updated Qt libraries (also for patch releases) might lead to link time failures, or even crashes.
If you want to disable the plugins on Linux and Mac OS X, you can pass "QT_PRIVATE_HEADERS=" to qmake:
qmake "QT_PRIVATE_HEADERS=" $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/qtcreator.pro
The plugins are also automatically omitted if the private header files are not found. This might be the case when you use a Qt version from your distribution, or installed a self-compiled Qt to a separate directory via 'make install'. You can fix this by either re-building your Qt with the "-developer-build" configure option, or by passing the include directory in the source directory to qmake. For example:
qmake "QT_PRIVATE_HEADERS=$$QT_BUILD_TREE/include" $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/qtcreator.pro
This section provides step by step instructions for compiling the latest versions of Qt and Qt Creator on Windows. Alternatively, to avoid having to compile Qt yourself, you can use one of the versions of Qt shipped with the Qt SDK (release builds of Qt using MinGW and Visual C++ 2008).
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Decide which compiler to use: MinGW or Microsoft Visual Studio. If you plan to contribute to Qt Creator, you should compile your changes with both compilers.
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Install msysGit from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/. If you plan to use the MinGW compiler suite, do not choose to put git in the default path of Windows command prompts. For more information, see step 9.
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Create a working directory under which to check out Qt and Qt Creator, for example, c:\work. If you plan to use MinGW and Microsoft Visual Studio simultaneously or mix different Qt versions, we recommend creating a directory structure which reflects that. For example: C:\work\qt4.8.1-vs10, C:\work\qt4.8.4-mingw.
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Download and install Perl from http://www.activestate.com/activeperl and check that perl.exe is added to the path.
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In the working directory, check out the respective branch of Qt (we recommend 4.8; see http://qt.gitorious.org/qt).
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Check out Qt Creator (master branch, see http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator). You should now have the directories qt and creator under your working directory.
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Install a compiler:
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For a MinGW toolchain for Qt 4, see http://www.mingw.org. For a MinGW toolchain for Qt 5, see http://mingwbuilds.sourceforge.net.
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For Microsoft Visual C++, install the Windows SDK and the "Debugging Tools for Windows" from the SDK image. We strongly recommend using the 64-bit version and 64-bit compilers on 64-bit systems.
When using Visual C++ 2010, you must apply a hotfix that is available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2280741 (See https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-11445).
For the Visual C++ compilers, it is recommended to use the tool 'jom'. It is a replacement for nmake that utilizes all CPU cores and thus speeds up compilation significantly. Download it from http://releases.qt-project.org/jom/ and add the executable to the path.
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For convenience, we recommend creating shell prompts with the correct environment. This can be done by creating a .bat-file (such as, <working_directory>\qtvars.bat) that contains the environment variable settings. A .bat-file for MinGW looks like:
set QTDIR=<working_directory>\qt set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;<path_to_mingw>\bin;<working_directory>\creator\bin;%PATH% set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++
For the Visual C++ compilers, call the .bat file that sets up the environment for the compiler (provided by the Windows SDK or the compiler):
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSVC10\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64 set QTDIR=<working_directory>\qt set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;<working_directory>\creator\bin;%PATH% set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2010
You can create desktop links to the bat files using the working directory and specifying
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /k <working_directory>\qtvars.bat
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When using MinGW, open the shell prompt and enter:
sh.exe
That should result in a 'sh is not recognized as internal or external command...' error. If a sh.exe is found, the compile process will fail. You have to remove it from the path.
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You are now ready to configure and build Qt and Qt Creator. To use MinGW, open the the shell prompt and enter:
cd qt configure -debug && mingw32-make -s cd ..\creator qmake && mingw32-make -s
To use the Visual C++ compilers, enter:
cd qt configure -debug && jom cd ..\creator qmake && jom
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To launch Qt Creator, enter: qtcreator
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When using Visual C++ with the "Debugging Tools for Windows" installed, the extension library qtcreatorcdbext.dll to be loaded into the Windows console debugger (cdb.exe) should have been built under lib\qtcreatorcdbext32 or lib\qtcreatorcdbext64. When using a 32 bit-build of Qt Creator with the 64 bit version of the "Debugging Tools for Windows" the library should also be built with a 64 bit compiler (rebuild src\libs\qtcreatorcdbext using a 64 bit compiler).
Note that unlike on Unix, you cannot overwrite executables that are running. Thus, if you want to work on Qt Creator using Qt Creator, you need a separate build of it. We recommend using a separate, release-built version of Qt and Qt Creator to work on a debug-built version of Qt and Qt Creator or using shadow builds.
Qt Creator includes the following third-party components, we thank the authors who made this possible:
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Open Source front-end for C++ (license MIT), enhanced for use in Qt Creator
Roberto Raggi [email protected]
QtCreator/src/shared/cplusplus
Copyright 2005 Roberto Raggi [email protected]
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Botan, a C++ crypto library. Version 1.10.2
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ClassView and ImageViewer plugins
Copyright (C) 2013 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2013 Denis Mingulov.
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