Cross-platform Qt 6 CMake Project Setup

In this video I show you how to set up Qt 6 and a CMake file which can be used to build your Qt C++ project to be used with Visual Studio 2019 and Qt Creator. This CMake file is usable in Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Install Qt
04:31 Setup Qt in Path (Windows)
06:50 Install CMake
07:38 CMake File
13:45 Visual Studio Setup
16:04 Sample Code
19:15 Qt Creator Setup
23:18 Summary
24:00 Last Remarks

[ChickenTandies]

This is literally the most helpful CMake and Qt tutorial I’ve ever watched to help me get all setup. And the most concise. Massive thank you

[hackpulsar]

The most instructive, well structured and high quality tutorial on this topic. Thank you!

[eelick]

I cannot tell you how much pain you just saved me from .... you are a code god :)

[marcolanfranco]

Excellent! It is not easy to find such effective tutorials, many thanks

[Overwatch]

Concise and to the point.
Got my Qt app integrated with my project in VS Code.
Thanks man.

[litergod]

Super helpful/concise guide, very helpful for wrapping my head around using Cmake + Qt

[alexsimper]

its hard to find some good qt tutorials on the internet, thanks for this!

[mbwilding]

The perfect tutorial doesn't exi....

You helped me more than you know. Thanks for this man! Subbed.

[KX]

Check out Qt VS Tools extension for Visual Studio. I haven't used it much but it seems to reduce the need for a lot the initial setup and a lot of of back and forth between VS, Qt creator, CMake and windows explorer. Only downside I can see is that it still uses qmake.

[electro.engineering]

Hello World, I hereby present you the new David Malan haha

Excelent tutorial, man. Thanks.
Greetings from Germany.

[huzeyfeerkek]

Thanks for this practical tutorial. Extending it with google test integration would be even better.

[rafaelvidal]

Very nice video. Congratullations. Do you know if I can use QT6 for Front-End in a ESP32 device?

[kuba]

@Velcode You are awesome dude. Thank you for your kind explanation and helping out others!

[wppuudy]

Hey thanks for the video, i have a question that when we try to export a project from Qt design studio to Qt creator, it uses cpp main file to load the qml, how can i do it for python development?

[saimahmad]

21:17 in my kit management i cant see CMake tab.. anyone please help me

[matthewjheaney]

How do you force Qt Creator to re-run the build configuation dialog? You had a project that had an existing config (MSVC was the compiler), but then you were able to get force Qt Creator to run the configation dialog again, allowing you to add a different compiler. How did you do that?

[joseimiranda]

Hi there. Enjoyed your video. But I would like to know if you can help me with cmake and qt6. I have installed qt6 in my msys6/mingw64 using pacman. My c++ compiler idem (g++). I want to develop a basic qt that uses Q_OBJECT. I know I have to use the moc inside the makefile. Well, I have tried but could not make it work. Thanks. Jose.

[joeporsche]

This is very good content. One more subscriber here. Cheer!!!

[ed]

Helped me a lot, very good explanation. Thank you

[carlodicicco]

Does your tutorial work even for pycharm instead of VisualStudio?