Qt Shader Tools

The Qt Shader Tools module builds on the SPIR-V Open Source Ecosystem as described at the Khronos SPIR-V web site.

The main components of the Qt shader conditioning system are:

  • the qsb command-line tool
  • CMake integration for the qsb tool
  • QShader (part of the QtGui module)
  • QShaderBaker (part of this module, the library equivalent of the qsb tool)

Note: As of Qt 6.5, the C++ APIs are considered private. They are not recommended for direct usage from applications. Rather, use the qsb command-line tool either directly, or indirectly from CMake projects.

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Licenses and Attributions

Qt Shader Tools runtime library is available under commercial licenses from The Qt Company. In addition, it is available under free software licenses. Since Qt 6.3, these free software licenses are GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3, or the GNU General Public License, version 2.

The qsb command-line tool is available under commercial licenses from The Qt Company. In addition, it is available under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

See Qt Licensing for further details.

Furthermore, Qt Shader Tools in 6.5.7 may contain third party modules under following permissive licenses:

SPIRV-Cross, version sdk-1.3.216.0

Apache License 2.0 and Khronos License

glslang, version 11.10.0

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License, and Khronos License, and Apache License 2.0, and GNU General Public License v3.0 or later with Bison exception 2.2, and NVIDIA 2002 License

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