Manage MCU kits

Note: Before you start developing for MCUs, go to Help > About Plugins, and make sure you have the Qt for MCUs plugin enabled.

Qt Creator automatically adds kits for all the available MCU targets if you select Automatically create kits for all available targets on start in Preferences > SDKs > MCU. This setting is selected by default.

Automatically create MCU kits in the MCU tab in SDKs preferences

Note: When you update the Qt for MCUs SDK, Qt Creator asks you whether you want to replace the existing kits or create additional kits. To do this manually for each target, select Update Kit or Create Kit.

To add new kits, go to Preferences > SDKs > MCU, and select Create Kit. This adds the paths to the kit's toolkits and SDKs, and keeps them synchronized when you select Apply or OK.

Change or remove MCU kits

To change or remove individual kits, go to Preferences > Kits.

MCU kit in the Kits tab in Kits preferences

Note: When working with Qt for MCUs releases prior to Qt for MCUs 2.0, the MCU Dependencies filter can be used to display paths to 3rd party software needed for MCU development with the selected kit.

See also Enable and disable plugins, How To: Develop for MCUs, How To: Manage Kits, and Developing for MCUs.