5. Qt Application Development

In the previous sections, a build tool for QT5 application qmake has been created. It is used for generate Makefiles and other project files for QT5 application, after that, users can build QT5 application with cross compile toolchain. For development of larger QT5 application, a IDE tools named as QtCreator is commonly used. There is a evaluation edition of QtCreator in our release package at the path 03-Tools/qt-creator-opensource-linux-x86_64-4.1.0.run.

In the following sections, we will introduce the installation, configuration of QtCreator, and demonstrate how to create a simple QT5 application running on MYD-C437X-PRU development board.