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These documents describe platform-specific features provided by Qt, and discuss issues related to particular platforms and environments. \generatelist{related} */ /*! \page platform-notes.html \ingroup platform-specific \title Platform Notes \brief Information about the platforms on which Qt can be used. This page contains information about the platforms Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes, including any known bugs or incompatibilities. \list \o \l{Platform Notes - X11} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - X11} \o \l{Platform Notes - Windows} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - Windows} \o \l{Platform Notes - Mac OS X} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - Mac OS X} \o \l{Platform Notes - Symbian} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - Symbian} \o \l{Platform Notes - Embedded Linux} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - Embedded Linux} \o \l{Platform Notes - Windows CE} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - Windows CE} \o \l{Platform Notes - QNX} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - QNX} \o \l{Platform Notes - VxWorks} \tableofcontents{1 Platform Notes - VxWorks} \endlist See also the \l{Compiler Notes} for information about compiler-specific build issues. Information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. If you have anything to add to this list or any of the platform or compiler-specific pages, please submit it via the \l{Bug Report Form} or through the \l{Public Qt Repository}. */ /*! \page platform-notes-x11.html \title Platform Notes - X11 \contentspage Platform Notes This page contains information about the X11 platforms Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. \tableofcontents \target AIX \section1 AIX - 5.2 Qt has been tested on AIX 5.2, using the \l{Compiler Notes#IBM xlC (AIX)}{xlC} compiler. \table \header \o Compiler \o Notes \row \o xlC \o If Qt is built correctly but all symbols are reported to be missing when you link an application, your makeC++SharedLib script might be out of date. Make sure you have the latest version from the \l{http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/vacpp/support/}{IBM website}. \row \o GCC \o We have tested earlier versions of Qt 4 successfully with GCC version 3.3 and above. Some versions of GCC may fail to link Qt with a "TOC overflow" message. Fix this by upgrading to the latest maintenance release of the dynamic linker. On AIX this is bos.rte.bind_cmds.4.1.5.3 or later. Some versions of GCC may fail to build Qt with STL and large-file support enabled, due to \l{http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9551}{a bug in GCC}. Fix this by upgrading to the latest maintenance release of the compiler. It is also possible to work around this problem by running configure with either \c{-no-stl} or \c{-no-largefile}. \endtable \target FreeBSD \section1 FreeBSD - 6.0-RELEASE \note FreeBSD is a community supported platform. See the \l{Supported Platforms} page for more information. The system compiler on FreeBSD 4.x is gcc 2.95.4, which is not officially supported by Qt 4. We develop using and recommend ports/lang/gcc34. You will need to run configure with the \c{-platform freebsd-g++34} arguments. Optionally, you may use ports/lang/icc. The system compiler on FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x is GCC 3.4.4, which should be sufficient to build Qt. You do not need to add any special arguments when running configure. Optionally, you may use ports/lang/icc. Note that we do not actively test FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. Our developers migrated to 6.x after the Qt 4 launch. FreeBSD-CURRENT is not supported. \target HP-UX \section1 HP-UX Qt supports HP-UX on both PA-RISC and the Itanium (IA64) architectures. \section2 PA-RISC - B.11.11 or later You can configure Qt for aCC in 32 and 64 bit mode (hpux-acc-64 or hpux-acc-32), or gcc in 32 bit mode (hpux-g++). The default platform is hpux-acc-32. The minimum required version for aCC (HP ANSI C++) on PA-RISC is A.03.57. The supported gcc compiler is gcc 3.4.3. \section2 Itanium - B.11.23 or later You can configure Qt for aCC in 32 and 64 bit mode (hpuxi-acc-64 or hpuxi-acc-32). gcc is currently unsupported. The default platform is hpuxi-acc-64. The minimum required version for aCC (HP ANSI C++) on Itanium is A.06.12. \section2 OpenGL Support Qt's \l{QtOpenGL}{OpenGL} module requires GLX 1.3 or later to be installed. This is available for HP-UX 11i - see the \l{http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-2331/ch04s02.html}{Graphics and Technical Computing Software} section of the release notes for more information. \target IRIX \section1 IRIX - 6.5.x \bold{IRIX is an unsupported platform - please see Qt's online \l{Platform Support Policy} for details.} Unpackaging and IRIX tar: Because of long filenames some files will be cut off incorrectly with IRIX tar. Please use GNU tar to unpack Qt packages. \section1 Linux There are no known problems with using Qt on production versions of Linux/x86, Linux/ppc, Linux/amd64 and Linux/ia64 (including Altix(R)). For the gcc/g++ compiler, please also see the relevant \l{Compiler Notes#GCC}{compiler page}. \section2 Installation problems See also the \l{Installation FAQ}. If you experience problems when installing new open source versions of Qt versions, try to use the open source Qt archives (e.g., RPM) provided by your Linux distribution. If you need to install the source (.tgz) archive, be aware that you will probably end up with two different versions of the Qt library installed on your system, which will probably lead to link errors, like this: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 0 Fix this by removing the old version of the library. If you have problems installing open source versions of Qt provided by your Linux distribution (e.g., RPM), please consult the maintainers of the distribution, not us. Some RPM versions have problems installing some of the Qt RPM archives where installation stops with an error message warning about a "Failed Dependency". Use the \c{--nodeps} option to \c rpm to workaround this problem. \target Solaris \section1 Solaris - 9 or later \section2 Unpackaging and Solaris tar On some Solaris systems, both Solaris tar and GNU tar have been reported to truncate long filenames. We recommend using star instead (http://star.berlios.de). \section2 CC on Solaris Be sure to check our \l{Compiler Notes#Sun Studio}{Forte Developer / Sun Studio} notes. \section2 GCC on Solaris Be sure to check the installation notes for \l{GCC on Solaris}. Do not use GCC with Sun's assembler/linker, this will result in link-time errors in shared libraries. Use GNU binutils instead. GCC 3.2.* is known to miscompile Qt due to an optimizer bug that will cause the resulting binaries to hang. Please use GCC 3.4.2 or later. */ /*! \page platform-notes-windows.html \title Platform Notes - Windows \contentspage Platform Notes This page contains information about the Windows platforms Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. \tableofcontents \section1 Windows Vista At the time Qt %VERSION% was released, there were no known Vista-specific issues. \target Windows NT \section1 Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT \section2 Installation location Installing Qt into a directory with spaces, e.g. C:\\Program Files, may cause linker errors like the following: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 2 Install Qt into a subdirectory without spaces to avoid this problem. \section2 Possible GL conflict There is a known issue with running Microsoft NetMeeting, Lotus SameTime and other applications that require screen grabbing while direct rendering is enabled. Other GL-applications may not work as expected, unless direct rendering is disabled. */ /*! \page platform-notes-mac.html \title Platform Notes - Mac OS X \contentspage Platform Notes This page contains information about the Mac OS X versions Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. \tableofcontents \section1 General Information Qt 4.6 applications can only be deployed on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and higher. Qt 4.4 and Qt 4.5 development is only supported on Mac OS X 10.4 and up. Applications built against these version of Qt can be deployed on Mac OS X 10.3, but cannot be developed on that version of the operating system due to compiler issues. Qt 4.3 has been tested to run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up. See notes on the binary package for more information. Qt 4.1 has been tested to run on Mac OS X 10.2.8 and up. Qt 4.1.4 is the last release to work with Mac OS X 10.2. \section2 Required GCC version Apple's gcc 4 that is shipped with the Xcode Tools for both Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 will compile Qt. There is preliminary support for gcc 4.2 which is included with Xcode Tools 3.1+ (configurable with \c{-platform macx-g++42}). \section2 Binary Package The binary package requires that you have your .qt-license file in your home directory. Installer.app cannot complete without a valid .qt-license file. Evaluation users of Qt will have information about how to create this file in the email they receive. The binary package was built on Mac OS X 10.4 with Xcode Tools 2.1 (gcc 4.0.0) for Qt 4.1.0, Xcode Tools 2.2 (gcc 4.0.1) for Qt 4.1.1-4.1.4 and Xcode Tools 2.3 for 4.2.0. It will only link executables built against 10.4 (or a 10.4 SDK). You should be able to run applications linked against these frameworks on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Mac OS X 10.4+. If you require a different configuration, you will have to use the source package and build with GCC 3.3. \section2 Mac OS X on Intel hardware Qt 4 fully supports both the Intel and PowerPC architectures on the Mac. As of Qt 4.1 it is possible to support the Intel architecture by creating Universal Binaries with qmake. As of Qt 4.1 it is possible to build Qt as a set of universal binaries and frameworks from configure by adding these extra flags: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 3 If you are building on Intel hardware you can omit the sdk parameter, but PowerPC hardware requires it. You can also generate universal binaries using qmake. Simply add these lines to your .pro file: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 4 \section2 Build Issues If Qt does not build upon executing make, and fails with an error message such as \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 5 this could be an indication you have upgraded your version of Mac OS X (e.g. 10.3 to 10.4), without upgrading your Developer Tools (Xcode Tools). These must match in order to successfully compile files. Please be sure to upgrade both simultaneously. If problems still occur, contact support. \section2 Fink If you have installed the Qt for X11 package from \l{Fink}, it will set the QMAKESPEC environment variable to darwin-g++. This will cause problems when you build the Qt for Mac OS X package. To fix this, simply unset your QMAKESPEC or set it to macx-g++ before you run configure. You need to have a fresh Qt distribution (make confclean). \section2 MySQL and Mac OS X There seems to be a issue when both -prebind and -multi_module are defined when linking static C libraries into dynamic library. If you get the following error message when linking Qt: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_platform-notes.qdoc 6 re-link Qt using -single_module. This is only a problem when building the MySQL driver into Qt. It does not affect plugins or static builds. \section2 Qt and Precompiled Headers (PCH) Starting with Qt 3.3.0 it is possible to use precompiled headers. They are not enabled by default as it appears that some versions of Apple's GCC and make have problems with this feature. If you want to use precompiled headers when building the Qt source package, specify the -pch option to configure. If, while using precompiled headers, you encounter an internal compile error, try removing the -include header statement from the compile line and trying again. If this solves the problem, it probably is a good idea to turn off precompiled headers. Also, consider filing a bug report with Apple so that they can improve support for this feature. */ /*! \page platform-notes-windows-ce.html \title Platform Notes - Windows CE \contentspage Platform Notes This page contains information about the Windows CE and Windows Mobile platforms Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. */ /*! \page platform-notes-symbian.html \title Platform Notes - Symbian \contentspage Platform Notes \ingroup platform-specific \brief Information about the state of support for the Symbian platform. As with any port, the maturity for Qt for Symbian has not yet reached the same level as other established Qt ports. This page documents the current notes for the Symbian port. \section1 Source Compatibility Qt for Symbian provides the same level of source compatibility guarantee as given for other platforms. That is, a program which compiles against a given version of Qt for Symbian will also compile against all future versions of the same major release. \section1 Binary Compatibility As with every supported platform, we will strive to maintain application behavior and binary compatibility throughout the lifetime of the Qt 4.x series. However, due to the fact that Symbian support is newly added in 4.6.0, there is a slight possibility that minor corrections to the application binary interface (ABI) might be required in 4.6.1, in order to ensure compatibility going forward. Any such change will be clearly documented in the release notes for 4.6.1. \section1 Supported Devices Qt is designed to work on any device which runs one of the following versions of Symbian: \table \header \o Symbian Version \row \o S60 3.1 \row \o S60 3.2 \row \o S60 5.0 (Symbian ^1) \endtable Qt has received \l{Tier 1 Platforms}{Tier 1} testing on the following phone models: \table \header \o Phone \row \o Nokia 5800 \row \o Nokia E71 \row \o Nokia E72 \row \o Nokia N78 \row \o Nokia N95 \row \o Nokia N97 \row \o Samsung i8910 \endtable \section1 Supported Functionality The following technologies and classes are not currently supported: \table \header \o Technology \o Note \row \o QtConcurrent \o Planned for future release. \row \o QtDBus \o No current plans to support this feature. \row \o QtOpenGL ES \o Planned for future release. \row \o Printing support \o No current plans to support this feature. \row \o Qt3Support \o No current plans to support this feature. \endtable The following technologies have limited support: \table \header \o Technology \o Note \row \o QtSql \o The only driver supported is SQLite. \row \o QtMultimedia \o Although the module itself is supported, no backend for Symbian is currently available. However, there is a backend available for Phonon. \endtable \section1 Known Issues Known issues can be found by visiting the \l{http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/QtKnownIssues}{wiki page} with an up-to-date list of known issues, and the list of bugs can be found by \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG/component/19171}{browsing} the S60 component in Qt's public task tracker, located at \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}. For information about mixing exceptions with Symbian leaves, see \l{Exception Safety with Symbian}. \section1 Required Capabilities The Qt libraries are typically signed with \c{All -TCB} capabilites, but that does not mean your Qt application needs to be signed with the same capabilities to function properly. The capabilities your application needs to function properly depends on which parts of Qt you use, here is an overview: \table \header \o Module \o Required Symbian Capability \row \o QtCore \o \c PowerMgmt if QProcess::kill(...) or QProcess::terminate(...) is called. \row \o QtCore \o \c AllFiles when \l{http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Capabilities_%28Symbian_Signed%29/AllFiles_Capability}{accessing specific areas.} \row \o QtNetwork \o \c NetworkServices is basically always required for this module. \row \o QtMultiMedia \o \c UserEnvironment if QAudioInput is used. \endtable Note that some modules rely on other modules. If your application uses QtXmlPatterns, QtWebkit or QtScript it may still require \c NetworkServices as these modules rely on QtNetwork to go online. For more information see the documentation of the individual Qt classes. If a class does not mention Symbian capabilities, it requires none. \section1 Multimedia and Phonon Support Qt provides a backend for Qt's Phonon module, which supports video and sound playback through Symbian's Multimedia Framework, MMF. In this release the support is experimental. Video playback may have flickering issues, and support for effects and playback queueing is incomplete. The audio and video formats that Phonon supports depends on what support the platform provides for MMF. The emulator is known to have limited codec support. In addition, there exists a backend for the Helix framework. However, due to it not shipping with Qt, its availability depends on the Symbian platform in use. If available, it is loaded in preference over the MMF plugin. If the Helix plugin fails to load, the MMF plugin, if present on the device, will be loaded instead. \section1 UI Performance in devices prior to Symbian^3 Qt uses the QPainter class to perform low-level painting on widgets and other paint devices. QPainter provides functions to draw complex shapes, aligned text and pixmaps. It can also do vector path clipping, coordinate transformations and Porter-Duff composition. If the underlying graphics architecture does not support all of these operations then Qt uses the raster graphics system for rendering. Most of the Symbian devices prior to Symbian^3 use a non-ScreenPlay graphics architecture which does not have native support for all functions provided by QPainter. In non-ScreenPlay devices Qt uses the raster graphics system by default which has a performance penalty when compared to native Symbian rendering. In order to be able to perform all functions provided by QPainter, the raster graphics system needs to have pixel level framebuffer access. To make this possible in non-ScreenPlay devices Qt has to create an additional offscreen buffer that is the target for all Qt rendering operations. Qt renders the widget tree to the offscreen buffer and the offscreen buffer is blitted to the framebuffer via Symbian Window Server. The following table shows the rendering stacks of native Symbian and Qt in non-ScreenPlay devices. \table \header \o Symbian \o Qt \row \o \image symbian-rendering-stack-non-screenplay.png \o \image symbian-qt-rendering-stack-non-screenplay.png \endtable The following diagrams show a simplified sequence of drawing a pixmap in a non-ScreenPlay device. \table \header \o Symbian \row \o \image symbian-draw-pixmap-sequence.png \endtable \table \header \o Qt \row \o \image symbian-qt-draw-pixmap-sequence.png \endtable When compared to a native Symbian application, Qt does an additional blit to the offscreen buffer before drawing to the framebuffer. That is the performance penalty which needs to be paid to get all functionality provided by QPainter in non-ScreenPlay architecture. */ /*! \page platform-notes-embedded-linux.html \title Platform Notes - Embedded Linux \contentspage Platform Notes This page contains information about the Embedded Linux platforms Qt is currently known to run on, with links to platform-specific notes. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page. */