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Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789951752
Pages 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Lee Zhi Eng Lee Zhi Eng
Profile icon Lee Zhi Eng

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Getting Started with Qt Creator 3. Building Applications with Qt Creator 4. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 5. Qt Foundations 6. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 7. Section 2: Advanced Features
8. Drawing with Qt 9. Doing More with Qt Quick 10. Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick 11. Sensors and Qt Quick 12. Section 3: Practical Matters
13. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 14. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 15. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 16. Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator 17. Qt Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring Qt for an embedded project

As you may already know, the Qt framework comes with an enormous set of libraries that may add up to several gigabytes of storage. Even at the minimum, these libraries could take up to 15 megabytes of storage, which is overkill for a small embedded device. To fix this problem, The Qt Company has provided us with a tool for configuring our Qt package before we build the Qt framework from the source for our embedded project. We can pick and choose the features that we want and discard the features that we don't need in order to reduce the Qt library size.

The tool is called the Qt Configuration Tool or qconfig-gui.exe and is located in the C:\Qt\Tools\QtConfigGui folder, as shown here:

Press the Run Configure button to start the configuration process, which will take some time to complete. Once completed, you can open up Command Prompt...

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