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Qt Released For OS X

Posted by timothy on from the merging-venn-diagrams dept.

AxsDeny writes: "It looks like Macslash is also reporting this, but Trolltech is now offering Qt for OS X. Long live cross platform development." Doesn't look like there's a Free version, but there is a non-commerical license called the "Qt Academic License," which "Allows schools and universities to acquire and use Qt for free in relevant courses."

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  1. Another good link by wiredog · · Score: 5, Informative

    To a good article at Kuro5hin.

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  2. Re:Yes, but you're breaking the law by pi_rules · · Score: 4, Informative
    That is absolutely not the case.


    You can write a GPL app and link it to non-free applications. What you cannot do is link to a GLPed library and release it with a non-free (well, non GPL) license. If the library is written under the LGPL you -can- link a non-GPL application to the LGPL library though.


    If your above stated take on the license was true it would be impossible to write a GPLed application for any OS which isn't GPLed from the ground up. You can write a GPL app for Win32 or Solaris, right? Last I checked their standard C library wasn't GPL.

  3. Re:Time to move? by Dr.+Sp0ng · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've got a biggish Win32 program and wonder about moving it to Qt. How big an effort?

    Qt is quite a bit different from MFC, and I think porting would be more effort than simply rewriting it in Qt.

    Any performance hits / gotchas?

    Not really... don't pay any attention to the AC trolls who bitch and moan about moc (Qt's preprocessor)... it lets you do some really neat stuff that you simply can't do with normal callbacks. As for performance, I haven't noticed any speed hits using Qt as opposed to MFC.

    Any features that we'll lose?

    Nope. Anything that Qt doesn't support is EXTREMELY easy to add yourself... Qt is designed in such a way that subclassing a widget to add new features is a breeze, so you can make any widget do anything you want.

    Qt also provides tons of utility classes, which make it simple to do stuff like asynchronous socket/file i/o and so on. It rocks.

    Want to stop being dependent on MS before they collapse!

    Heheh. Good plan :)