The Qt5 version of QScintilla is called libqscintilla2-qt5.so. Make it be referenced this way by Qt's build system. --- Qt4Qt5/features/qscintilla2.prf.orig 2015-04-20 14:38:24 UTC +++ Qt4Qt5/features/qscintilla2.prf @@ -17,9 +17,17 @@ CONFIG(debug, debug|release) { win32: { LIBS += -lqscintilla2d } else { - LIBS += -lqscintilla2 + greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4) { + LIBS += -lqscintilla2-qt$${QT_MAJOR_VERSION} + } else { + LIBS += -lqscintilla2 + } } } } else { - LIBS += -lqscintilla2 + greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4) { + LIBS += -lqscintilla2-qt$${QT_MAJOR_VERSION} + } else { + LIBS += -lqscintilla2 + } }