aqtinstall VS imgui

Compare aqtinstall vs imgui and see what are their differences.

aqtinstall

aqt: Another (unofficial) Qt CLI Installer on multi-platforms (by miurahr)

imgui

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies (by ocornut)
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aqtinstall

Posts with mentions or reviews of aqtinstall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
  • Adventures in Debian's Qt Land
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    I mostly disagree. Like you said, Qt is the best native GUI toolkit available today. And that is a hard achievement. There are many tradeoffs (some you pointed out) but the open source community seems to find a way around those limitations. There are thousands of open source libraries you can plug-in into your Qt app to overcome many of its limitations (although some remain, like how can't we still not easily change caret/cursor color of QTextEdit??).

    Unlike you, I like the direction where Qt is taking. I think QML and Qt Quick are great. I just implemented a feature in my note-taking app that turns Markdown text into Kanban board using QML and the experience has been great (https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/pull/574). I'm planning to continue transition from QWidgets to QML/Qt Quick.

    I do worry of the continuous friction with open source development and hate the online installers as well. I can recommend this useful tool https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall that allows you to easily download prebuilt Qt binaries. I hope they can revert their approach on that.

  • KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall will help you with that.
  • Getting “QT with MinGW support”?
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 5 Oct 2022
  • Qt 6.4 Released
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022
    you can install it from vcpkg or conan (or https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall if you really want the official Qt binaries) and it'll be much less
  • Trouble Building Qt6/5
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 17 Sep 2022
    Is there any particular reason why you want to build Qt yourself? This is usually quite painful and requires a lot of extra stuff (see https://wiki.qt.io/Building\_Qt\_6\_from\_Git) . If you just want to avoid the (horrible) official installer and a Qt account, you can use aqtinstaller to fetch everything you need: https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • Please do not use Python for tooling
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2022
    Just recently, I had to recompile a (singleplayer) save game editor. So basically a GUI that does some clever hex editing.

    It was written in C++ using Qt.

    Have you ever tried compiling a Qt program on Windows? It involves signing up for an official Qt developer account to even install qmake.

    To the point I had to use an unofficial Qt installer CLI app (aqtinstall) [0] to even install the toolchain to build this little shitty app... which still relied on having several Qt .dll files in the same directory as the .exe to work.

    Have you clicked on [0] yet? Well, then guess what programming language aqtinstall uses.

    [0] https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall

  • Qt6 and Docker
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 6 Jun 2022
    No need for credentials with the aqtinstaller. https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • Performance Improvements in .NET 6
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
    I'll be honest I don't think that doing C++ on windows is a good idea. The language needs to do a lot of file access for includes, and on NTFS those are super slow, my builds on Linux are something like 1/3 of the time on windows (building with the same commit of clang 12 and lld, same computer, same SSD).

    But if you don't want to install a Linux partition, then just use aqt to install Qt: https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall

    You want win64_msvc2019_64 as a platform.

    Way too often I see everyone clicking on everything in the installer which amounts to a 30gb download, but for the immense majority of Qt apps you just want the core libs for your platform which is like a couple hundred megabytes (and even then in practice you're going to use only a small part of those unless you have uncommon needs such as serial port, modbus or NFC communication, XML parsing, ...)

  • GUI?
    8 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jul 2021
    For installing on a docker container it is a far better idea to use Conan or https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
  • How do I install Qt5 without an account?
    2 projects | /r/QtFramework | 16 Apr 2021
    The reason is that the Qt Company sucks. You can use https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall or one of the windows package managers like vcpkg https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.

imgui

Posts with mentions or reviews of imgui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aqtinstall and imgui you can also consider the following projects:

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk

egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

CEGUI

FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

nana - a modern C++ GUI library

nuklear

webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.