Qt for Wayland Requirements

To download and install Qt for Wayland, follow the instructions on the Getting Started with Qt page.

Divide into two sections. One for runtime and one for build.

Requirements for Development Host

Ubuntu versions later than <insert version here> contains all necessary dependencies, so you dont' need to build Wayland yourself.

The following packages are required:

• libwayland-dev
• libwayland-egl1-mesa
• libwayland-server0
• libgles2-mesa-dev
• libxkbcommon-dev

Building Qt for Wayland

Getting the Sources

Qt sources can be installed in Qt Online Installer. Source packages are also available through Git, as archives in the Qt Account (commercial users), and on download.qt.io (open-source users).

If you install the sources through Qt Online Installer, they will be available in the Qt installation directory, for example $HOME/Qt/6.8.0/Src.

If you downloaded the single source archive, extract it to a directory of your choice:

cd /tmp
tar xf ~/Downloads/qt-everywhere-src-6.8.0.tar.xz

Install Build Requirements

Build the Qt Libraries and Tools

To configure your build, create a build directory and run the ./configure script in this directory:

mkdir -p ~/dev/qt-build
cd ~/dev/qt-build
/tmp/qt-everywhere-src-6.8.0/configure

By default, Qt is configured for installation in the /usr/local/Qt-6.8.0 directory. This can be changed by using the -prefix option. See the list of configure options to tweak further.

Did configure run successfully? Then proceed with building the libraries and tools:

cmake --build . --parallel

After building, you need to install the libraries and tools in the appropriate place (unless you enabled a developer build):

cmake --install .

Note that this might require root access.

Using Qt

After Qt is installed, you can start building applications with it.

If you work from the command line, consider adding the Qt tools to your default PATH. This is done as follows:

In .profile (if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh), add the following lines:

PATH=/usr/local/Qt-6.8.0/bin:$PATH
export PATH

In .login (if your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following line:

setenv PATH /usr/local/Qt-6.8.0/bin:$PATH