The development package that you get with the Boot to Qt Software Stack consists of:

• Qt development libraries and core tools.
• Qt Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

About Qt Development Libraries

Qt is a full development framework designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms. With Qt, you can reuse code efficiently to target multiple platforms with one code base. The modular C++ class library and development tools enable developers to create applications for one platform and easily build and deploy on other platforms as well.

The Qt libraries provide high-level APIs for a large variety of both non-GUI and GUI related functionality. For UI creation, Qt provides a number of approaches: traditional C++ widget-based UI with Qt Widgets or declarative UI design with Qt Quick and Qt Quick Controls. For more information, see User Interfaces.

Qt Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

The Boot to Qt toolchain is built around the Qt Creator (IDE). Qt Creator runs on all desktop platforms.

You can deploy directly from Qt Creator to a device connected via USB or local area network. Qt Creator is pre-configured for devices running Boot to Qt but it can also be manually configured to build and deploy to custom embedded toolchains and devices.