A) Unix Qt3/Qt4 ================ A1) Library Builds need qmake, that is official part of Qt. qmake qwt.pro make make install A2) Designer Plugin cd designer qmake qwtplugin.pro make make install A3) Qwt Text Engine Plugins Qwt/Qt4 supports the MathML render engine from the Qt solutions package, that is only available for commercial Qt edition as plugin. Copy the files qtmmlwidget.[cpp|h] to textengines/mathml. The plugin is written for a release (> 2.0), that is not yet released by TrollTech today. I don't want to publish a patch for qtmmlwidget-2.0 because of license issues. If you want to use it, move the declaration of MmlDocument to qtmmlwidget.h renaming it to QtMmlDocument. cd textengines qmake textengines.pro make make install A4) Examples cd examples qmake examples.pro make If you like to run the examples, don't forget to install the Qwt library/plugins or set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the lib directory of your local build. B) Win32/MSVC Qt3/Qt4 ===================== Please read the qmake documentation how to convert your *.pro files into your development environment. F.e MSVC with nmake: qmake qwt.pro nmake cd designer qmake qwtplugin.pro nmake nmake install cd textengines qmake textengines.pro make cd examples qmake examples.pro nmake There is a msvc-qmake.bat batch file for Visual Studio users to generate makefiles or project files (.dsp for MSVC-6.0 or vcproj for MSVC.NET) for Qwt, all examples and the designer plugin. To generate makefiles, type: msvc-qmake To generate project files, type: msvc-qmake vc C) Win32/MinGW Qt4 ================== If you use the MinGW compiler from the MSYS shell do: export MINGW_IN_SHELL=1; qmake; make cd designer qmake qwtplugin.pro make make install cd examples qmake make -i Good luck !