summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README24
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 885fec03ad..58e2cbd79e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -11,13 +11,11 @@ Windows XP SP3 or later
Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Building the sources requires Qt 5.3.1 or later.
-It is also possible to build with Qt 4.8.x, but in that case the Welcome mode,
-QML Profiler, and the WinRT and Qbs support are disabled.
Compiling Qt Creator
====================
Prerequisites:
- * Qt 5.3.1 or later (with restrictions also Qt 4.8.x)
+ * Qt 5.3.1 or later
* On Windows:
- ActiveState Active Perl
- MinGW with g++ 4.5 or Visual Studio 2010 or later
@@ -33,28 +31,10 @@ You can build Qt Creator with
qmake -r
make (or mingw32-make or nmake or jom, depending on your platform)
-Note: If you use Qt 4.8 to build on OS X, you need to additionally pass
- "-spec unsupported/macx-clang-libc++" to qmake.
-
Installation ("make install") is not needed. It is however possible, using
make install INSTALL_ROOT=$INSTALL_DIRECTORY
-Private Header Dependencies When Compiling With Qt 4.8
-------------------------------------------------------
-
-The QNX plugin, and on Windows the Utils library, use
-private headers of Qt. These private headers always end with an "_p.h". Digia
-and the Qt Project do not promise to keep these files or APIs binary or source
-compatible between releases. This means that when compiled, Qt Creator has a
-dependency to the exact Qt version it was compiled with. Running Qt Creator
-against updated Qt libraries (also for patch releases) might lead to link time
-failures, or even crashes.
-
-To disable the plugins, pass "QT_PRIVATE_HEADERS=" to qmake:
-
- qmake "QT_PRIVATE_HEADERS=" $SOURCE_DIRECTORY/qtcreator.pro
-
Compiling Qt and Qt Creator on Windows
--------------------------------------
@@ -69,7 +49,7 @@ http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git .
plan to contribute to Qt Creator, you should compile your changes with
both compilers.
- 2. Install msysGit from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/. If you plan to
+ 2. Install msysGit from https://msysgit.github.io/. If you plan to
use the MinGW compiler suite, do not choose to put git in the
default path of Windows command prompts. For more information, see
step 9.