Qt for Windows - Requirements

This page describes the required libraries and environment for Qt for Windows.

Libraries

The following third-party libraries may be used when running Qt 5 applications on Windows.

• ICU: Qt 5 can make use of the ICU library for enhanced UNICODE and Globalization support (see QTextCodec, QCollator::setNumericMode()).

  At compile time, the include and lib folders of the ICU installation must be appended to the INCLUDE and LIB environment variables. At run-time, the ICU DLLs need to be found by copying the DLLs to the application folder or by adding the bin folder of the ICU installation to the PATH environment variable.

• ANGLE: This library converts OpenGL ES 2.0 API calls to DirectX 11 or DirectX 9 calls (depending on availability), removing the need to install graphics drivers on the target machines.

SSL

Support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication is provided by the OpenSSL Toolkit, which must be obtained separately. Download the latest version of the toolkit.

• To have Configure pick up OpenSSL automatically, set the following variables to point to where your OpenSSL includes and libraries are located: