diff --git a/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake b/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
index 043d2ca4960..ec71ded3590 100644
--- a/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtInternalTargets.cmake
@@ -361,6 +361,15 @@ if(QT_FEATURE_enable_new_dtags)
     qt_internal_platform_link_options(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE "-Wl,--enable-new-dtags")
 endif()
 
+function(qt_internal_apply_coverage_flags)
+    if(QT_FEATURE_coverage_gcov)
+        target_compile_options(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE
+            "$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:-fprofile-arcs;-ftest-coverage>")
+        target_link_options(PlatformCommonInternal INTERFACE "$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:-lgcov;--coverage>")
+    endif()
+endfunction()
+qt_internal_apply_coverage_flags()
+
 function(qt_get_implicit_sse2_genex_condition out_var)
     set(is_shared_lib "$<STREQUAL:$<TARGET_PROPERTY:TYPE>,SHARED_LIBRARY>")
     set(is_static_lib "$<STREQUAL:$<TARGET_PROPERTY:TYPE>,STATIC_LIBRARY>")
diff --git a/cmake/QtProcessConfigureArgs.cmake b/cmake/QtProcessConfigureArgs.cmake
index b5ea3707524..ccae19e5921 100644
--- a/cmake/QtProcessConfigureArgs.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtProcessConfigureArgs.cmake
@@ -934,6 +934,29 @@ if(INPUT_force_debug_info)
     list(TRANSFORM build_configs REPLACE "^Release$" "RelWithDebInfo")
 endif()
 
+# Code coverage handling
+drop_input(gcov)
+if(INPUT_gcov)
+    if(NOT "${INPUT_coverage}" STREQUAL "")
+        if(NOT "${INPUT_coverage}" STREQUAL "gcov")
+        qtConfAddError("The -gcov argument is provided, but -coverage is set"
+            " to ${INPUT_coverage}")
+        endif()
+    else()
+        set(INPUT_coverage "gcov")
+        list(APPEND config_inputs coverage)
+    endif()
+endif()
+if(NOT "${INPUT_coverage}" STREQUAL "")
+    if(build_configs)
+        if(NOT "Debug" IN_LIST build_configs)
+            qtConfAddError("The -coverage argument requires Qt configured with 'Debug' config.")
+        endif()
+    else()
+        set(build_configs "Debug")
+    endif()
+endif()
+
 list(LENGTH build_configs nr_of_build_configs)
 if(nr_of_build_configs EQUAL 1 AND NOT multi_config)
     push("-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${build_configs}")
diff --git a/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md b/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
index 75c7fd3b2cf..5ccd4964def 100644
--- a/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
+++ b/cmake/configure-cmake-mapping.md
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ The following table describes the mapping of configure options to CMake argument
 | -appstore-compliant                   | -DFEATURE_appstore_compliant=ON                   |                                                                 |
 | -qtnamespace <name>                   | -DQT_NAMESPACE=<name>                             |                                                                 |
 | -qtlibinfix <infix>                   | -DQT_LIBINFIX=<infix>                             |                                                                 |
-| -gcov                                 |                                                   |                                                                 |
+| -coverage <tool>                      | -DINPUT_coverage=<tool>                           | Enables code coverage using the specified tool.                 |
+| -gcov                                 | -DINPUT_coverage=gcov                             | Enables code coverage using the gcov tool.                      |
 | -trace [backend]                      | -DINPUT_trace=yes or -DINPUT_trace=<backend>      |                                                                 |
 |                                       | or -DFEATURE_<backend>                            |                                                                 |
 | -sanitize address -sanitize undefined | -DFEATURE_sanitize_address=ON                     | Directly setting -DECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS=foo is not supported   |
diff --git a/config_help.txt b/config_help.txt
index 7681b5f79f8..c360c8fdd1b 100644
--- a/config_help.txt
+++ b/config_help.txt
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ Build options:
   -qtnamespace <name> .. Wrap all Qt library code in 'namespace <name> {...}'.
   -qtlibinfix <infix> .. Rename all libQt6*.so to libQt6*<infix>.so.
 
+  -coverage <tool> ..... Instrument with the code coverage tool.
   -gcov ................ Instrument with the GCov code coverage tool [no]
 
   -trace [backend] ..... Enable instrumentation with tracepoints.
diff --git a/configure.cmake b/configure.cmake
index 508aa7782ec..43fa7d4812b 100644
--- a/configure.cmake
+++ b/configure.cmake
@@ -1049,6 +1049,33 @@ qt_feature("intelcet" PRIVATE
     LABEL "Using Intel CET"
     CONDITION ( INPUT_intelcet STREQUAL yes ) OR TEST_intelcet
 )
+
+if("${INPUT_coverage}" STREQUAL "gcov")
+    qt_config_compile_test(gcov
+        LABEL "gcov compiler flags"
+        COMPILE_OPTIONS "-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
+        CODE
+    "int main(void)
+    {
+        /* BEGIN TEST: */
+        /* END TEST: */
+        return 0;
+    }
+    ")
+endif()
+
+qt_feature("coverage-gcov"
+    LABEL "Gcov"
+    ENABLE INPUT_coverage STREQUAL "gcov"
+    CONDITION TEST_gcov AND
+        ( QT_FEATURE_debug OR QT_FEATURE_debug_and_release )
+)
+
+qt_feature("coverage"
+    LABEL "Coverage"
+    CONDITION QT_FEATURE_coverage_gcov
+)
+
 qt_configure_add_summary_build_type_and_config()
 qt_configure_add_summary_section(NAME "Build options")
 qt_configure_add_summary_build_mode(Mode)
diff --git a/qt_cmdline.cmake b/qt_cmdline.cmake
index b655bdcc5ed..14df26e0a26 100644
--- a/qt_cmdline.cmake
+++ b/qt_cmdline.cmake
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ qt_commandline_option(widgets TYPE boolean)
 qt_commandline_option(xplatform TYPE string)
 qt_commandline_option(zlib TYPE enum NAME system-zlib MAPPING system yes qt no)
 qt_commandline_option(zstd TYPE boolean)
+qt_commandline_option(coverage TYPE optionalString VALUES gcov)
 qt_commandline_prefix(D defines)
 qt_commandline_prefix(F fpaths)
 qt_commandline_prefix(I includes)