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=== Qt tools ===
{{See also|Qt Creator}}

Qt comes with its own set of tools to ease cross-platform development, which can otherwise be cumbersome due to different set of development tools.

[[Qt Creator]] is a cross-platform [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] for C++ and QML. [[Qt Creator#History|Qt Designer]]'s [[GUI]] layout/design functionality is integrated into the IDE, although Qt Designer can still be started as a standalone tool.

In addition to Qt Creator, Qt provides [[qmake]], a cross-platform [[Build Automation|build script generation tool]] that automates the generation of Makefiles for development projects across different platforms.
There are other tools available in Qt, including the Qt Designer interface builder and the Qt Assistant help browser (which are both embedded in Qt Creator), the Qt Linguist translation tool, uic (user interface compiler), and moc (Meta-Object Compiler).