Will Windows Phone 8 support Qt?

Question

I'm just wondering, if the native app development support is now introduced to Windows phone 8, does this mean that we can -technically- develop Qt-based app and benefit from the QML technology?

Answer 1

There is a lengthy technical report on the feasibility of supporting Qt on Windows 8 here:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-on-Windows-8-and-Metro-UI

From the conclusions it sounds quite feasible.

Answer 2

A bit of an update to this old question, links:

• Building Qt 5 for Windows 8 Modern UI (Windows Store Apps & Windows Phone 8)
• Building and deploying your WinRT apps (Tech Preview 1)
• Qt5 documentation snapshot: WinRT

So to answer the question: Yes, it's indeed technically possible. Still (start of 2014) in early stages of development, so everything does not work, project set up is clumsy etc, but looks pretty promising. No idea about when official out-of-the-box support might come to Qt 5 SDK, but Qt is open source, so you can start playing with it already.