Cannot run qmake in Mac Terminal

Question

I\'m learning Qt for my C++ course at college. I am trying to set up the environment for my first assignment but I can\'t seem to get it right. I swear I have run qmake in the

Answer 1

It is generally not needed at all to touch the PATH on any system (Mac, Unix, Windows) merely to use Qt. You may have multiple Qt versions installed in parallel (say 4.8 from macports, 5.2, git stable, etc.).

A way of building a Qt project on Unix is (substitute relevant paths for your setup):

mkdir ~/build-dir
cd ~/build-dir
~/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/clang_64/bin/qmake ~/src/myproject/myproject.pro
make -j2
# were N in -jN is the number of CPU cores on your system