List of platforms supported by Qt explained

See main article: Qt (software).

Official platforms

The following platforms are officially supported by Qt:

Platform	Details
Android	Qt for Android (Android 6.0 or later (API level 23 or higher), i.e. all currently supported 32-bit and 64-bit and popular unsupported versions); for Qt 5 Android Lollipop and later, i.e. all currently supported and popular unsupported versions).^[1] ^[2] formerly known as Necessitas^[3]
Embedded Linux	Qt for embedded platforms: personal digital assistant, smartphone, etc.^[4]
Integrity	Qt for Integrity^[5] ^[6]
iOS	Qt for iOS platforms (iPhone, iPad), iOS 13 and later; for Qt 5, iOS 11 and later.^[7] Support for tvOS 11 and later and watchOS 4 and later as a technology preview, while it's no longer supported with Qt 6.
macOS	Qt for Apple macOS (64-bit platforms, including Apple M1^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11]); supports applications on Cocoa^[12]
QNX	Qt for QNX^[13] Under free software license and also under "Qt Commercial" license
VxWorks	Qt for VxWorks;^[14] only available under a commercial license. Qt 5.5 is currently tested and supported on VxWorks 7 release SR0480 2016-09-16.^[15]
Wayland	Qt for Wayland.^[16] Qt applications can switch between graphical backends like X and Wayland at load time with the -platform command line option.^[17] ^[18] This allows a seamless transition of Qt applications from X11 to Wayland.
Windows	64-bit (including arm64 as technology preview) 10 and 11 for Qt 6; 32-bit and 64-bit (i.e. x86 and x86_64) for Qt 5.13^[19] for Microsoft Windows 7 and newer,^[20] 8.1 and 10; Qt 5.6 version supported: Windows XP and Vista
Windows CE	Older Qt versions had support for Windows CE 6 and Windows Embedded Compact 7.^[21]
Windows RT	Universal Windows Platform 10. Previous Qt versions: Support for WinRT-based Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 8^[22]
X11	Qt for X Window System (Linux);	-probably not: HP-UX, Qt 4.6:"HPUXi 11.23 aCC 6.10",-> Solaris, AIX, etc.)^[23] --> FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD (and other operating systems) have community support for Qt 4.6 (now no longer supported version).^[24]

Qt as of version 6 requires a C++17 compiler, and has some extra support for C++20.

External ports

After Nokia opened the Qt source code to the community on Gitorious various ports appeared. Here are some of these unofficial platforms:

• Qt for OpenSolaris – Qt for OpenSolaris.^[25]
• Qt for Haiku – Qt4 and Qt5 for Haiku.^[26]
• Qt for OS/2 – Qt for OS/2, eComStation^[27] and ArcaOS.^[28]
• Qt for webOS – experimental development of Qt for webOS on Palm Pre.^{[29] [30]}
• Qt for Amazon Kindle DX – experimental development of Qt for Amazon Kindle DX.^[31]
• Qt for AmigaOS – Qt for AmigaOS.^[32] "a port in progress"^[33] of Qt5 for Amiga OS 4 and AmigaOne computers is available.
• Sailfish OS – mobile operating system based on MeeGo.
• Maemo – development is still supported by the community unlike MeeGo and Tizen, which are based on Maemo.

Deprecated ports

Some ports of Qt are now deprecated and are no longer actively developed. These are list of some of these platforms that may be available, but are not supported anymore:

• Qt for Tizen – Qt for Tizen.^[34]
• Symbian – Qt for the Symbian platform.^{[35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]} Qt replaced Nokia's Avkon as the supported UI SDK for developing Symbian applications.^[41]
• Windows Mobile – Qt for Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile.^[42]
• MeeGo / Harmattan The port for MeeGo and the official native API for Nokia N9. No longer supported, though parts of it lives on in the Sailfish port.
• BlackBerry 10 The Qt 5 port for BlackBerry 10 is unmaintained,^[43] however BlackBerry 10 itself is based on Qt 4 using a proprietary UI toolkit.
• Qt Ubuntu – Plugin for Qt 5 to provide Ubuntu integration, including support for the Mir display server.^[44]

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Features in Qt 6.2 - Qt Wiki. 2021-10-18. wiki.qt.io.
2. Web site: [New Features in Qt 5.1 - Support for New Platforms |publisher=Digia |date=3 July 2013 |accessdate=3 July 2013].
3. Web site: Necessitas project . 3 December 2012 . 13 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121113220147/http://necessitas.kde.org/ . dead .
4. Web site: Qt Wiki – Support for Embedded Linux . Qt Project . 12 August 2011 . 21 August 2013.
5. Web site: Reference Target Devices and Development Hosts Qt 5.13.0 for Device Creation. doc.qt.io. 2019-07-27.
6. Web site: Qt Product pages, Supported platforms. 21 November 2014. Qt - Product - Qt Framework. The Qt Company.
7. Web site: Supported Platforms. 1 February 2014. https://archive.today/20140201130022/https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/supported-platforms.html. 2014-02-01. dead.
8. Web site: [QTBUG-93206] Enable JIT for macOS on ARM - Qt Bug Tracker]. 2021-10-18. bugreports.qt.io.
9. Web site: Qt on Apple Silicon. 2021-10-18. www.qt.io. en.
10. Web site: New Features in Qt 6.2 - Qt Wiki. 2021-10-18. wiki.qt.io.
11. Web site: Qt 6.2 LTS Released. 2021-10-18. www.qt.io. en.
12. Web site: Qt Wiki – Support for OS X . Qt Project . 14 August 2011 . 21 August 2013.
13. Web site: Qt Blog . Qt Commercial Formally Supports QNX | Qt Blog . Blog.qt.digia.com . 2013-03-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131008160705/http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2011/11/29/qt-commercial-formally-supports-qnx-2/ . 2013-10-08 .
14. Web site: Qt Blog . Qt Commercial for VxWorks | Qt Blog . Blog.qt.digia.com . 2013-03-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140419044100/https://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/06/28/qt-commercial-for-vxworks-2/ . 2014-04-19 .
15. Web site: Qt for VxWorks Qt 5.13. doc.qt.io. 2019-11-03.
16. Web site: Multi-process Lighthouse. Qt Project. Jørgen Lind. 18 March 2011. 21 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131003171404/http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2011/03/18/multi-process-lighthouse/. 2013-10-03. dead.
17. Web site: Getting started with Lighthouse. 25 November 2011.
18. Web site: Add wayland lighthouse plugin . Kristian Høgsberg . 25 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130514155010/http://qt.gitorious.org/%2Bqt-developers/qt/lighthouse/commit/6c5ea196ff086b92687033208f15e36591dc70f6 . 14 May 2013.
19. Web site: Supported Platforms Qt 5.13. doc.qt.io. 2019-07-27.
20. Web site: Qt Wiki – Support for Windows . . 11 August 2011 . 11 August 2013.
21. Web site: The State of WinCE Support in Qt5 . Bjoern Breitmeyer . KDAB . 21 August 2013 . 21 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130818104109/http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/07/30/the-state-of-wince-support-in-qt5/ . 2013-08-18 . dead .
22. Web site: Qt for WinRT. Qt Project. 9 September 2014.
23. Web site: Qt Wiki – Support for Linux/X11 . Qt Project . 12 August 2011 . 21 August 2013.
24. Web site: Qt 4.6: Platform Notes - X11. doc.qt.io. 2019-07-27.
25. Web site: KDE on OpenSolaris . Hub.opensolaris.org . 26 October 2009 . 13 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100220091414/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+kde/ . 20 February 2010 .
26. Web site: Qt Applications and UI Framework for Haiku . Qt-haiku.ru . 13 November 2011 . 17 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017074201/http://qt-haiku.ru/ . dead .
27. Web site: Qt 4 Application and UI Framework for eCS . Svn.netlabs.org . 15 September 2011 . 13 November 2011.
28. Web site: Qt 5 QtWebengine status. 2020-08-03.
29. http://gitorious.org/~darronb/qt/qt-palm-pre.git Qt webOS port
30. Web site: darron . Blog: Qt on the Palm Pre . Griffin.net . 25 February 2010 . 13 November 2011.
31. Web site: darron . Blog: Qt on Amazon Kindle DX . Griffin.net . 30 January 2010 . 13 November 2011.
32. Web site: Qt AmigaOS Native 4.7. 5 August 2013.
33. Web site: Qt5 for AmigaOS 4 on Github. Generationamiga. GenerationAmiga.com. en-GB. 2019-11-03.
34. Web site: Qt for Tizen. 15 December 2013.
35. Web site: Support for Symbian | Qt Wiki . Qt Project . 29 August 2012 . 19 March 2013 . https://archive.today/20130415194416/https://qt-project.org/wiki/Support-for-Symbian . 2013-04-15 . dead .
36. Web site: Qt for S60 – Forum Nokia Wiki . Wiki.forum.nokia.com . 13 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110816081028/http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Qt_for_S60 . 2011-08-16 . dead .
37. Web site: Nokia Announce Technology preview of Qt on S60 . All About Symbian . 20 October 2008 . 13 November 2011.
38. Web site: Paul . Ryan . Nokia releases first Qt preview for Symbian S60 . ars technica . 20 October 2008 . 13 November 2011.
39. Web site: Espen Riskedal . Qt Labs Blogs – We're porting Qt to S60! . Labs.trolltech.com . 20 October 2008 . 13 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100316135043/http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/10/20/were-porting-qt-to-s60 . 16 March 2010 .
40. Web site: Qt Software – Technology Preview – Qt for S60 . Trolltech.com . 13 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081224140424/http://trolltech.com/developer/technical-preview-qt-for-s60 . 2008-12-24 . dead .
41. Web site: David Wood: S60 / Avkon are dead . Tamss60.tamoggemon.com . 13 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006144856/http://tamss60.tamoggemon.com/2009/08/04/david-wood-s60-avkon-are-dead/ . 2011-10-06 . dead .
42. Web site: Qt Wiki – Support for Windows CE and Windows Mobile . Developer.qt.nokia.com . 12 August 2011 . 13 November 2011.
43. Web site: Marking BB10 unsupported . 23 March 2015 . 17 October 2015.
44. Web site: Qt Ubuntu . Launchpad.net . 29 January 2013 . 19 March 2013.