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/*!
    \page windows-support.html
    \title Support for Windows
    \brief Platform support for Windows.
    \ingroup platform-specific
    \ingroup platform-details

    \section1 Qt on Windows

    Qt is a comprehensive application and UI framework for developing Windows
    applications that can also be deployed across many other desktop and
    embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. Use the
    code from one single code-base and rebuild for all
    \l{Supported Platforms}{supported Windows versions and other platforms}.

    \section1 Getting Started on Windows

    \list
        \li \l{Supported Platforms}{Supported Windows platforms} - Qt
        supports a wide range of Windows platforms.
        \li \l{Qt for Windows Requirements}{Qt for Windows Requirements}
        - Requirements for developing with Qt on Windows.
        \li \l{Installing Qt for Windows}{Installing Qt for Windows}
        - Build Qt for Windows development.
        \li \l{Platform and Compiler Notes - Windows}{Platform and Compiler Notes - Windows}
        - Windows platform specific notes.
        \li \l{Getting Started Guides}{Getting started} - Getting started developing for Windows
    \endlist

    \section1 Key Features for Windows Development

    \section2 Rich Class Library

    The Qt class library includes all the functionality needed to build
    advanced GUI applications.

    \list
        \li Complete set of customizable  \l{UI Design with Qt}{UI
        controls/widgets}
        \li 3D graphics support with \l{QtOpenGL Module}{OpenGL}
        or Direct3D
        \li Powerful \l{Thread Support in Qt}{multi-threading} features
        \li \l{Graphics View Framework}{2D graphics canvas} capable of
        handling millions of items
        \li Multimedia support with \l{QtMultimedia module}{Qt Multimedia
        module}
        \li \l{WebKit in Qt}{WebKit} integration
        \li \l{Network programming with Qt}{Networking}, \l{QtXml Module}
        {XML} and \l{SQL in Qt}{database} functionality
        \li \l{ECMAScript Reference}{ECMA standard} scripting engine
    \endlist

    \section2 Integrated Development Tools

    Qt includes a set of integrated development tools to speed
    development on the Windows platform.

    \list
        \li \l{Qt Designer Manual}{Qt Designer} provides a drag and drop
        visual GUI builder.
        \li \l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist} provides internationalization
        and translation features.
        \li \l{Qt Assistant Manual}{Qt Assistant} is a customizable HTML help
        file reader providing the complete Qt documentation offline.
    \endlist

    \section2 Cross-Platform Development using Qt Creator

    \l{external: Qt Creator Manual}{Qt Creator} is
    a complete Cross-platform IDE included in the Qt SDK. The IDE allows
    programmers to create, build, debug and run Qt applications accross all
    supported platforms.

    \section2 Visual Studio Add-in.

    The Qt Visual Studio Add-in allows programmers to create, build, debug
    and run Qt applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008
    and 2010. The add-in contains project wizards, Qt project import/export
    support, integrated Qt resource manager and automated build setup for
    the Qt Meta-Object Compiler, User Interface Compiler, and Resource
    Compiler.

    Additional \l{Cross-Platform and Platform-Specific Development}
    information.
*/

/*!
    \page linuxX11-support.html
    \title Support for Linux/X11
    \brief Platform support for Linux/X11.
    \ingroup platform-specific
    \ingroup platform-details

    \section1 Qt on Linux/X11

    Qt is a comprehensive application and UI framework for developing
    Linux/X11 applications that can also be deployed across many other
    desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
    Use the code from one single code-base and rebuild for all
    \l{Supported Platforms}{supported X11 versions and other platforms}.

    \section1 Getting Started on Linux/X11

    \list
        \li \l{Supported Platforms}{Supported Linux/X11 platforms} - Qt
        supports a wide range of Linux/X11 platforms.
        \li \l{Qt for X11 Requirements}{Qt for X11 Requirements}
        - Software required to run Qt on Linux/X11.
        \li \l{Installing Qt for X11 Platforms}{Installing Qt for X11 Platforms}
        - Build Qt for Linux/X11 development.
        \li \l{Platform and Compiler Notes - X11}{Platform and Compiler Notes - X11}
        - Platform specific notes.
        \li \l{Getting Started Guides}{Getting started}
    \endlist

    \section1 Key Features for Linux/X11 Development

    \section2 Integrated Development Tools

    Qt includes a set of integrated development tools to speed development
    on X11 platforms.

    \list
        \li \l{Qt Designer Manual}{Qt Designer} provides a drag and drop
        visual GUI builder.
        \li \l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist} provides internationalization
        and translation features.
        \li \l{Qt Assistant Manual}{Qt Assistant} is a customizable HTML help
        file reader providing the complete Qt documentation offline.
        \li Integration with
        \l{Eclipse Plugin}{Eclipse}
        and KDevelop IDEs are also available.
    \endlist

    \section2 Cross-Platform Development using Qt Creator

    \l{external: Qt Creator Manual}{Qt Creator} is
    a complete Cross-platform IDE included in the Qt SDK. The IDE allows
    programmers to create, build, debug and run Qt applications accross all
    supported platforms.

    \section2 Rich Class Library

    The Qt class library includes all the funsctionality needed to build
    advanced GUI applications.

    \list
        \li \l{Qt Quick} and QML, a powerful declarative UI language for making fluid, animated,
        hardware-accelerated UIs.
        \li Complete set of customizable \l{UI Design with Qt}{UI
        controls/widgets}
        \li 3D graphics support with \l{QtOpenGL Module}{OpenGL
        integration}
        \li Powerful \l{Thread Support in Qt}{multi-threading} features
        \li \l{Graphics View Framework}{2D graphics canvas} capable of
        handling millions of items
        \li \l{Qt Multimedia Overview}{Support for Audio and Video} through the \l{Qt Multimedia}{Qt Multimedia
        module}
        \li \l{WebKit in Qt}{WebKit} integration
        \li \l{Network programming with Qt}{Networking}, \l{QtXml Module}
        {XML} and \l{SQL in Qt}{database} functionality
        \li \l{ECMAScript Reference}{ECMA standard} scripting engine
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt is the Foundation of KDE

    Qt is best known in the Linux community as the basis for the KDE
    desktop environment. Almost everything in KDE is based on Qt, and
    Qt forms the foundation for thousands of open source KDE applications
    developed by community members worldwide.

    Additional \l{Cross-Platform and Platform-Specific Development}
    information.

*/

/*!
    \page mac-support.html
    \title Support for Mac OS X
    \brief Platform support for Mac OS X.
    \ingroup platform-specific
    \ingroup platform-details

    \section1 Qt on Mac OS X

    Qt is a comprehensive application and UI framework for developing Mac
    applications that can also be deployed across many other desktop and
    embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. Use the
    code from one single code-base and rebuild for all
    \l{Supported Platforms}{supported Windows versions and other platforms}.

     \section1 Getting Started on Mac

    \list
        \li \l{Supported Platforms}{Supported Mac OS X platforms} - Qt supports
        a wide range of Mac platform variants.
        \li \l{Qt for Mac OS X Requirements}{Qt for Mac OS X Requirements}
        - Software required to run Qt on Mac OS X.
        \li \l{Installing Qt for X11 Platforms}{Installing Qt for X11 Platforms}
        - Build Qt for Mac OS X development.
        \li \l{Platform and Compiler Notes - Mac OS X}{Platform and Compiler Notes - Mac OS X}
        - Platform specific notes.
        \li \l{Getting Started Guides}{Getting started}
    \endlist

     \section1 Key Features for Mac OS X Development

    \section2 Integrated Development Tools

    Qt includes a set of integrated development tools to speed development
    on the Mac platform.

    \list
        \li \l{Qt Designer Manual}{Qt Designer} provides a drag and drop
        visual GUI builder.
        \li \l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist} provides internationalization
        and translation features.
        \li \l{Qt Assistant Manual}{Qt Assistant} is a customizable HTML help
        file reader providing the complete Qt documentation offline.
    \endlist

    \section2 Cross-Platform Development using Qt Creator

    \l{external: Qt Creator Manual}{Qt Creator} is
    a complete Cross-platform IDE included in the Qt SDK. The IDE allows
    programmers to create, build, debug and run Qt applications accross all
    supported platforms.

    \section2 Rich Class Library

    The Qt class library includes all the functionality needed to build
    advanced GUI applications.

    \list
        \li \l{Qt Quick} and QML, a powerful declarative UI language for making fluid, animated,
        hardware-accelerated UIs.
        \li Complete set of customizable \l{UI Design with Qt}{UI
        controls/widgets}
        \li 3D graphics support with \l{QtOpenGL Module}{OpenGL
        integration}
        \li Powerful \l{Thread Support in Qt}{multi-threading} features
        \li \l{Graphics View Framework}{2D graphics canvas} capable of
        handling millions of items
        \li \l{Multimedia}{Support for Audio and Video} through the \l{Qt Multimedia}{Qt Multimedia
        module}
        \li \l{WebKit in Qt}{WebKit} integration
        \li \l{Network programming with Qt}{Networking}, \l{QtXml Module}
        {XML} and \l{SQL in Qt}{database} functionality
        \li \l{ECMAScript Reference}{ECMA standard} scripting engine
    \endlist

*/
/*!
    \page supported-platforms.html
    \title Supported Platforms
    \brief The platforms supported by Qt.
    \ingroup platform-specific
    \group platform-details

    Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt,
    you can write GUI applications once and deploy them
    across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without
    rewriting the source code.In Qt 5 all platforms are created using
    the new \l{Qt Platform Abstraction} (QPA), which makes it easier
    than before to port Qt into a new operating system.

    Qt is supported on a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms,
    and can usually be built on each platform with GCC, a vendor-supplied
    compiler, or a third party compiler. Open GL (ES) 2.0 or
    DirectX 9 (with ANGLE) is required for Qt Quick 2. Widgets and
    Qt Quick 1 can be used also without hardware acceleration.

    \section1 Desktop Platforms

    You can develop with Qt on the following desktop platforms:

    \list
        \li \l{Support for Windows}{Windows}
        \li \l{Support for Linux/X11}{Linux/X11}
        \li \l{Support for Mac OS X}{Mac OS X}
    \endlist

    \section1 Embedded platforms
    You can develop with Qt for the following embedded platforms:
    \list
        \li Embedded Linux (DirectFB, EGLFS, KMS, and Wayland)
        \li Windows Embedded (Compact and Standard)
        \li Real-Time Operating Systems, such as QNX, VxWorks and INTEGRITY
    \endlist

    \section1 Mobile platforms
    Qt 5 will support all leading mobile operating systems. There already exists work in progress support for:
    \list
        \li Android
        \li iOS
        \li Windows 8 (WinRT)
        \li BlackBerry 10
    \endlist

    \section1 Reference Configurations

    A \e {reference configuration} is a combination of an operating system version,
    a compiler version, and a graphics system. The following table lists the
    configurations that are tested by the Qt Project:

    \table
    \header \li Platform
                                     \li Compiler
    \row    \li Ubuntu Linux 11.10, X11 (64-bit)
                                     \li As provided by Ubuntu
    \row    \li Ubuntu Linux 12.04, X11 (64-bit)
                                     \li As provided by Ubuntu
    \row    \li Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)
                                     \li MSVC 2010 SP1
    \row    \li Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)
                                     \li MinGW 4.7
    \row    \li Microsoft Windows 8 (64-bit)
                                     \li MSVC 2012
    \row    \li Apple Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", Cocoa (64-bit)
                                     \li Clang as provided by Apple
    \row    \li Apple Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", Cocoa (64-bit)
                                     \li Clang as provided by Apple
    \endtable

    All these reference configurations are run on the continuous integration (CI) system
    of the Qt Project. In addition, they are subjected to unit test suite and
    other internal
    testing tools on a frequent basis (prior to new version releases, source tree
    branching, and at other significant period points in the development process).
    Errors or bugs discovered in these platforms are prioritized for correction.
    Significant errors discovered in tested configurations can impact release
    dates.

    Any configurations not listed above are not actively tested by the Qt
    Project. The Qt Project does not run its unit test suite or perform any
    other internal tests on configurations not listed above. However, Qt may run
    on configurations other than those actively tested on, and additional
    configurations may be raised to tested state, if sufficient effort is made
    to bring continuous integration to an acceptable state for that particular
    configuration.

    In addition to the reference platforms Qt is occasionally tested on other
    configurations in which it is known to run well. These include, for example:

    \table
    \header \li Platform
                                     \li Compiler
    \row    \li Ubuntu Linux 10.04, X11 (32-bit)
                                     \li As provided by Ubuntu
    \row    \li Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit)
                                     \li MSVC 2008
    \row    \li Apple Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", Cocoa (32-bit)
                                     \li GCC as provided by Apple
    \endtable

    Digia, Qt partners, open source projects and community users
    are able to provide assistance with various different supported
    platforms and configurations.

    \section1 Availability of Binary Installation Packages

    The Qt Project provides binary Qt installation packages for all of the
    reference platforms.

    To develop with Qt on other supported platforms, you need to build it from
    source.

    Fore more information about the platforms Qt runs on, and the compilers used
    on each platform, see the \l{Platform and Compiler Notes} page.

    \section1 General Legal Disclaimer

    Please note that Qt is offered on an "as is" basis without warranty
    of any kind and that our products are not error or bug free. To the maximum extent
    permitted by applicable law, Digia on behalf of itself and its suppliers, disclaims all
    warranties and conditions, either express or implied, including, but not limited to,
    implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and
    non-infringement with regard to the Licensed Software.

*/
