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Asked: 2026-06-01T08:34:47+00:00

I have Qt Creator on my mac. I downloaded the Qt sdk sources, I

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I have Qt Creator on my mac. I downloaded the Qt sdk sources, I built them, and I am able to compile code for mac and it runs fine.

I would like to target Windows, so I downloaded mingw32 sources, I built them, and now I have a i386-mingw32-g++ executable that compiles c++ code just fine, and the binary executable compiled from my mac runs just fine on a Windows box.

I would like now to create a new build configuration in Qt Creator so that it will use mingw32 as the compiler, in order to generate Windows binaries.

Here’s what I got in the Tool Chains configuration window:

Tool Chains configuration window

Here’s what I have in my build configuration:

Build configuration Tool Chains options

As you can see I am not able to select mingw32 as the compiler. Why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s because your Qt libraries are Mac version. Creator knows the target platform of selected Qt install and shows only the tool chains that work with it.

    I don’t know how you can install a Windows version of Qt on a Mac. The installer obviously won’t work. The only possible path is to build Qt with mingw that you have built.

    Edit: Here’s some info on cross-compiling Windows libs: http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-March/031945.html

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