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From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM@DESPAMbitwiseworks.com

*Qt 5 Base for OS/2//
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This is a port of the *QtBase* module of the Qt software development framework version 5 https://www.qt.io/> to the OS/2 operating system (and its derivants). This port is carefully crafted and maintained by bww bitwise works GmbH (also referred as
bitwiseworks).

The current version of the port implements all major parts of the *QtBase* module and is suitable to compile and run a large amount of Qt 5 applications on OS/2. It, however, carries a beta status and has the following limitations compared to versions of
Qt 5 for officially supported platforms (Linux, macOS and Windows):

* OpenGL and IPv6 support is absent.
* Drag and drop support is not implemented.
* Application-defined mouse pointer shapes are not supported.
* Some aspects of the desktop integration are missing.
* Some bugs are still there.

These limitations will be addressed in future versions of the OS/2 port (except OpenGL and IPv6 which are unlikely to be supported in the near future due to limitations of OS/2 itself).

Please refer to http://CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qtbase-os2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md> for a list of changes from release to release.

*Installation*
The easiest and the only officially supported way to install Qt 5 is to use binary builds provided by bitwiseworks. This requires the RPM/YUM environment for OS/2 to be installed. Note that all recent distributions of ArcaOS already have it, so nothing
needs to be done if you have one of these. In the RPM/YUM environment, there is no need to install Qt 5 libraries explicitly - it will be done automatically as long as an application that needs them is about to be installed. However, if you want to play
around with Qt 5 without installing any real Qt application, the best way to do so is to install official Qt 5 example and demo applications. This can be done by issuing the following command from the command line prompt:
/yum install qt5-qtbase-examples/
If you have ArcaOS and prefer a GUI installer, then you should launch Arca Noae Package Manager located in the /Computer > Install/Remove/ folder on your desktop, select /YUM > Quick install../ from the main menu, type /qt5-qtbase-examples/ in the entry
field and press /Enter/.

Once successfully installed, all Qt 5 example applications may be found in the /Programs > bitwiseworks Apps and Ports > Qt5 Base Examples/ folder on your desktop.

*Help and Support*
You will find a lot of useful information about Qt 5 for OS/2 on the Wiki https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2/wiki> pages of the project's main github repository. There you may also watch the progress of our work on this port. Please read these pages
carefully if you need any help or want to report a problem.

*Sponsoring*
To be able to finish our goals we need *your support*. Please sponsor as much as possible via our webshop http://www.bitwiseworks.com/shop/index.php?id_product=56&controller=product&id_lang=1> or via our Patreon page http://www.patreon.com/
bwwbitwiseworks>.


-- freundliche Grüsse / kind regards
Silvan Scherrer

/Silvan Scherrer
bww bitwise works GmbH
Tel. +41 71 243 55 77
Fax +41 71 243 55 70
http://www.bitwiseworks.com http://www.bitwiseworks.com> /

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