1. Introduction to Qt and Qtcreator
Qt is a cross-platform application development framework.
Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that integrates the functions provided by Qt. It can be downloaded and used alone or in combination with Qt.
2. Download
Download address: https://download.qt.io/archive/
(1) After entering the download interface, select the qt folder or qtcreator folder.
(2) Here I choose the qt folder. After entering, you can choose different versions of qt to download. It
should be noted that starting from Qt5.15 version, Qt Company no longer provides an open source offline installer. Here I choose to install version 5.12.
General selection principle: the highest minor version of the current version, so choose version 5.12.12 here.
After clicking to enter the 5.12.12/ folder, select the qt of the required platform.
3. Installation
(1) Run the installation program, you need to register a Qt account to install
(2) Select the installation directory
(3) Component selection
(4) Wait for the installation to complete