Windows

In this section, we will learn how to deploy our application to different operating systems. Even though Qt supports all major platforms out of the box, there might be some configurations which you need to set in order to make your application easily deployable to all platforms.

The first operating system we're going to cover is the most common one, Microsoft Windows.

Starting from Qt 5.6, Windows XP is no longer supported by Qt.

There could be certain plugins that may not work properly on the Windows version you're trying to deploy, so do check out the documentation before you decide to work on your project. However, it's safe to say most of the features will work out of the box on Qt.

By default, the MinGW 32-bit compiler comes ...

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