QtCMake

A C++ project template with Qt6 and CMake that downloads and compiles Qt. The resulting app is an executable that can be run on a system without Qt.

The main Qt6 configuration is found in the correspondent CMakeLists.txt file.

Note that statically compiled Qt6 weights more than 5 GB. The good thing is that user does not need whole compiled Qt6 with this configuration.

Prerequisites

• CMake
• Ninja
• Git

On Linux: libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev and all dependencies are required.

Note that most of the libraries that match *xcb* and *xkb* may be required on Linux.

How to build and run

Run the following commands from the project directory.

1. Create CMake cache

This step may take a lot of time because it downloads and compiles Qt.

cmake -S . -B cmake-build -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

2. Build executable target

cmake --build cmake-build --target QtCMake

3. Run executable target

• On Windows:

.\cmake-build\bin\QtCMake.exe

• On *nix:

./cmake-build/bin/QtCMake