qtwebengine
brew install qtwebengine
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 Apache-2.0 AND blessing AND BSD-2-Clause AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND libpng-2.0 AND MIT AND MPL-1.1 AND NCL AND SGI-B-2.0 AND SunPro AND Zlib AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
C++ library for embedding Chromium-based web rendering in Qt applications.
Why you might care
QtWebEngine is the official Qt module for displaying web content in desktop applications, replacing the deprecated QtWebKit. It's a build/runtime dependency for Qt-based GUI apps that need browser functionality, and provides deep integration with Qt's signal/slot architecture and native platform APIs.
Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://www.qt.io/
- Brew formula source: Formula/q/qtwebengine.rb
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