QtGui
Universal version latest seen at v5.15 · Reported by 145 Macs in the community.
All sighted native versions (2):
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QtGui is a core framework component of the Qt application development toolkit. It provides the foundational graphics user interface (GUI) layer for Qt applications on macOS, handling widget rendering, event processing, platform integration, and the native Cocoa bindings that allow Qt apps to behave like native macOS applications. Developers and application vendors use QtGui when building cross-platform desktop applications with Qt. A native Apple Silicon build has been confirmed running on Macs in the Rosetta Check community.
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1 suggestionQtGui ships as part of the Qt framework, which Qt-Project distributes through the Qt Maintenance Tool and the online Qt installer. A native Apple Silicon (Universal) build of QtGui has been confirmed in the wild. If you have Qt installed and need to update to the native version, the path depends on how you originally obtained Qt: If you installed Qt through the Qt Maintenance Tool (the recommended way), launch it, go to the "Packages" tab, deselect your current Intel build of Qt, and select the Apple Silicon native build of the same version; the tool will then download and install it. If you originally downloaded Qt directly from qt.io/download, download the latest Qt installer from that page — the modern downloads serve the native build by default on Apple Silicon Macs. If Qt is installed via Homebrew, run `brew upgrade qt` to pull the native build. For developers using Qt Creator (the included IDE), the same update mechanisms apply — updating the Qt framework itself updates QtGui automatically. Applications built against the new native QtGui build will compile and run natively on Apple Silicon without any code changes required.
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