Building Qt from sources now requires CMake and Ninja. See Build System Changes in Qt 6 for more details on this and other changes in configure.
Qt 6.0 is streamlined compared to Qt 5 and some modules are no longer in the default installation of Qt 6.0. Because of the modularized structure of Qt, new modules or previous Qt 5 modules may appear in future releases of Qt 6. For more information, visit the All Modules page.
The Changes to Qt Modules in Qt 6 has a list of API changes.
The following are new modules in Qt 6.0.
The following are Qt 5 modules that are not in Qt 6.0. They may be re-introduced in a future release of Qt 6.
| Module | qmake | Comments |
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| Qt Android Extras | androidextras |
See Changes to Qt Extras Modules |
| Qt Bluetooth | bluetooth |
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| Qt Charts | charts |
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| Qt Data Visualization | datavisualization |
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| Qt Graphical Effects | only QML types | |
| Qt Location | location |
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| Qt Mac Extras | macextras |
See Changes to Qt Extras Modules |
| Qt Multimedia | multimedia |
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| Qt Multimedia Widgets | multimediawidgets |
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| Qt NFC | nfc |
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| Qt Positioning | positioning |
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| Qt Purchasing | purchasing |
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| Qt Quick Extras | Merged into Qt Quick Controls | |
| Qt Remote Objects | remoteobjects |
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| Qt Script | qtscript |
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| Qt SCXML | scxml |
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| Qt Script Tools | scripttools |
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| Qt Sensors | sensors |
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| Qt Serial Bus | serialbus |
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| Qt Serial Port | serialport |
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| Qt Speech | texttospeech |
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| Qt WebChannel | webchannel |
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| Qt WebEngine | webenginecore |
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| Qt WebSockets | websockets |
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| Qt WebView | webview |
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| Qt Windows Extras | winextras |
See Changes to Qt Extras Modules |
| Qt X11 Extras | x11extras |
See Changes to Qt Extras Modules |
| Qt XML Patterns | xmlpatterns |
These pages contain an overview of API changes in Qt 6.0:
