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WSDG: Add Qt installation information. 

Change-Id: I7c468c9d22f1923acb488bd06176314c4f023f09
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/18179
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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=== Qt
The Qt library is used to build the UI for Wireshark and is used to provide a
platform independent UI.
platform independent UI. Wireshark can be built with Qt 4.7.0 or later, but we
recommend using Qt5.
For more information on the Qt libraries, see <<ChUIQt>>.
[[ChLibsUnixQt]]
==== Unix
TBD.
Most Linux distributions provide Qt and its development libraries as standard packages.
The required libraries and tools will likely be split across several packages. For example,
building on Ubuntu requires 'qttools5-dev', 'qttools5-dev-tools', 'libqt5svg5-dev,
'qtmultimedia5-dev', and possibly others.
The Qt Project provides an installation tool for macOS, similar to Windows.
It is available at https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2[].
[[ChLibsWin32Qt]]
==== Win32 MSVC
Qt5 must be installed manually, from the Qt installers page
http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2[], using the version of Qt
https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2[], using the version of Qt
appropriate for your compiler. Note that separate installations (into different directories) of Qt
are required for 32 bit and 64 bit builds. The environment variable QT5_BASE_DIR should be
set as appropriate for your environment and should point to the Qt directory that contains the
bin directory, e.g. C:\Qt\Qt5.5.0\5.5\msvc2013
bin directory, e.g. C:\Qt\Qt5.6.2\5.6\msvc2013
[[ChLibsGtk]]