qt6windows7/README.md

This is Qt 6.6.2 backport that runs on Windows 7 (what?). The repository contains patched source files from the qtbase module. Approach is based on this forum thread but better: many improvements amongst important fallbacks to default Qt 6 behaviour when running on newer Windows.

You can use our prebuild binaries (we used Visual C++ 2019 with OpenSSL 3.0.13 statically linked, see compile_win.pl script) or compile Qt yourself.

Known issues:

• Scalled UI is somewhat too big for 125% scalling option set in Windows 7. Probably can be be tweaked with dpi settings (?)
• QRhi using DirectX 11/12 is not ported

Qt 6.6 designer running on Windows 7: