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Building Qt - More information than I got from the docs

Qt Creator was going on longer than 1 hour for a build of the software, so I decided to not pursue Qt Creator. I have an idea that open source is one where you are able to hack-on, adjust, and compile the software yourself within a reasonable amount of time. For an IDE, for the first time using it, longer than 1 hour (and 1/4th done) is not within that idea.

Steps:

• Install the required dependencies

• Clone the qt git repo
git clone https://github.com/qt/qt5.git qt6
• Create two directories: one for build and one for install.
mkdir qt-build && mkdir qt-install
• Change into the repo dir
cd qt6
• I switched branches to the latest release, as to not try to build dev, you can if you want - this guide won't help you with issues
git switch 6.9.3
• Change directory to your build directory
cd ../qt-build
• You can use configure script to init the submodules,(within your build directory)
../qt6/configure -init-submodules -submodules qtbase
• Configure for compilation
../qt6/configure --submodules qtbase -prefix ../qt6-install/
• Build the Project
cmake --build . --parallel 4
• Install the Project
cmake --install .

Remembering that qmake is within the qt-install directory, bin directory:

You should now be able to proceed with the "Getting Started at the Command Line" tutorial the Qt wiki has: Click here

Note: there is nothing special about the directory names I chose, you can choose any, you can also probably move the bin, include, and lib to other more accessible locations if you so feel.