Building QtCreator From Scratch

This page describes how to build and install QtCreator version 4.10 from scratch. These instructions are for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit platform.

Resources

• Building Qt Creator from Git: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Creator_from_Git
• Github Source: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/tree/4.10

Dependencies

Make sure to build Qt 5.13.1 first. Instructions can be found on the Building Qt 5.13.1 From Scratch wiki page.

Download the Source

$ cd <workarea>
$ git clone https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator.git

Where workarea is the directory where you will be building from.

Change the branch to version 4.10:

$ cd qt-creator
$ git checkout -b 4.10

Build the Source

To build the QtCreator source, do the following:

$ cd <workarea>
$ mkdir qt-creator-build
$ cd qt_creator-build
$ qmake ../qt-creator/qtcreator.pro
$ make qmake_all
$ make

The binaries are located in the qt-creator-build/bin directory

Installing QtCreator

To install QtCreator, simply do:

$ sudo make install