Hi, These dependencies are hardcoded in the Qt Online Installer (or rather, the metadata of the packages). In particular, the MinGW toolchain is a dependency of the matching Qt package.
This ensures that things work ‘out of the box’ in Qt Creator, allowing you to start developing with Qt / MinGW without any additional installations & setup processes. Now it is indeed superfluous if you already have the same MinGW toolchain locally; however, it must be the exact same toolchain, otherwise you may encounter some strange errors. And since the MinGW toolchain size is still rather reasonable - at least compared to other downloads - I think it’s a reasonable tradeoff. Kai Confidential From: Interest <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Babcock <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 22. November 2025 at 07:35 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Interest] Unrequested Qt components being installed I'm installing Qt 6.10.1 right now, and like previous installs, it insists on giving me a few options that are explicitly not selected: Charts Shader tools MinGW 13.1 compiler I have the MinGW complier installed outside of Qt, so this is a moderate amount of wasted space, the other 2 matter less. I am selecting the MinGW libraries, so yes I do need the compiler, but I akready have it. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
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