- Qt 6.8
- Qt 5 Core Compatibility APIs
- Qt 6.8.1 Reference Documentation

# Qt 5 Core Compatibility APIs

The Qt 5 Core Compat module contains the Qt 5 Core APIs that were removed in Qt 6. The module facilitates the transition to Qt 6.

## Using the Module

Using a Qt module's C++ API requires linking against the module library, either directly or through other dependencies. Several build tools have dedicated support for this, including CMake and qmake.

### Building with CMake

Use the `find_package()` command to locate the needed module component in the `Qt6` package:

     find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core5Compat)
     target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE Qt6::Core5Compat)

For more details, see the Build with CMake overview.

### Building with qmake

To configure the module for building with qmake, add the module as a value of the `QT` variable in the project's .pro file:

     QT += core5compat

## Reference

- C++ Classes

## Licenses and Attributions

Qt 5 Core Compat is available under commercial licenses from The Qt Company. In addition, it is available under free software licenses: The GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3, or the GNU General Public License, version 2. See Qt Licensing for further details.

Furthermore, Qt 5 Core Compat in Qt 6.8.1 contains third party modules under the following permissive licenses:

Text Codec: EUC-JP | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codec: EUC-KR | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codec: GBK | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codec: ISO 2022-JP (JIS) | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codec: Shift-JIS | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codec: TSCII | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Text Codecs: Big5, Big5-HKSCS | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License