Supported Platforms
Qt is supported on a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and can usually be built on each platform with GCC, a vendor-supplied compiler, or a third party compiler. The following sections describe platform-compiler combinations that are supported by Trolltech for Qt.
32-Bit Platforms
| Platform | GCC | Compiler provided by OS vendor | 3rd party compiler |
|---|
| Microsoft Windows | gcc (MinGW) | MS Visual Studio/Visual C++ | Intel icc |
| Linux | gcc | - | - |
| Apple Mac OS X | gcc | - | - |
| IBM AIX | gcc | IBM xlC | - |
| HP HP-UX | gcc | HP aCC | - |
| SGI IRIX | gcc | SGI MipsPRO | - |
| Sun Solaris | gcc | Sun CC | - |
| FreeBSD | gcc | - | Intel icc |
64-Bit Platforms
| Platform | GCC | Compiler provided by OS vendor | 3rd party compiler |
|---|
| Microsoft Windows | - | MS Visual Studio/Visual C++ | Intel icc |
| IBM AIX | gcc | IBM xlC | - |
| HP-UX | - | HP acc | - |
| SGI IRIX | gcc | SGI MipsPRO | - |
| Sun Solaris | gcc | Sun cc | - |
| Linux | gcc | - | Intel icc |
Trolltech's online Platform Support Policy describes the level of support you should expect for these and other platforms.
