I am not sure why my post is not posting, but I will try to separate it to see if that helps. Part 1:

So, I wouldn't probably call QT a build system as much as I would call it a library of cross platform functions, objects, and methods. The great benefit of QT is that we can do something on one operating system and it will mostly work on another out of the box. This is true of the entire program, from the methods to the system functions to even the user interface. Also, its great because it is free as long as you are doing open source. QT creator is also a very nice IDE, in a number of ways it is better than Xcode.

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