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Official platforms

The following platforms are officially supported by Qt:

PlatformDetails
AndroidQt 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).12 formerly known as Necessitas3
Embedded LinuxQt for embedded platforms: personal digital assistant, smartphone, etc.4
IntegrityQt for Integrity56
iOSQt 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.
macOSQt for Apple macOS (64-bit platforms, including Apple M1891011); supports applications on Cocoa12
QNXQt for QNX13 Under free software license and also under "Qt Commercial" license
VxWorksQt 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
WaylandQt for Wayland.16 Qt applications can switch between graphical backends like X and Wayland at load time with the -platform command line option.1718 This allows a seamless transition of Qt applications from X11 to Wayland.
Windows64-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 5.1319 for Microsoft Windows 7 and newer,20 8.1 and 10; Qt 5.6 version supported: Windows XP and Vista
Windows CEOlder Qt versions had support for Windows CE 6 and Windows Embedded Compact 7.21
Windows RTUniversal Windows Platform 10. Previous Qt versions: Support for WinRT-based Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 822
X11Qt for X Window System (Linux); FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD (and other operating systems) have community support for Qt 4.6 (now no longer supported version).23

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:

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.35
  • Symbian – Qt for the Symbian platform.363738394041 Qt replaced Nokia's Avkon as the supported UI SDK for developing Symbian applications.42
  • Windows Mobile – Qt for Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile.43
  • 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,44 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.45

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