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brew install qttools v6.11.1 (LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only) AND (GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0) AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSL-1.0

Collection of development tools for Qt 6 applications including designer, linguist, and debugger.

Why you might care

Essential if you're building Qt 6 GUI applications—includes the Qt Designer UI editor, lupdate/lrelease for i18n, and qmake/cmake integration helpers. Provides a complete toolchain for Qt development on macOS; most Qt projects depend on this.

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