[Development] Qt for NaCl port

[Daiwei Li]

>
> Yes, it would be welcome in the Qt Project. The reason why it didn't go any
> further is that people probably got busy and did not have the time to
> continue
> supporting it.


I see. What about maintenance? This may not be the right place to ask this,
but is
Native Client a platform that Digia would want to support officially
eventually?

You probably will find problems in the QtNetwork library and, thus, Qt
> Quick's
> remote file and XML HTTP  Requests support.


Ok, I'll be on the lookout for problems there.

Best,
Daiwei


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> Em ter 10 jun 2014, às 21:33:44, Daiwei Li escreveu:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm investigating porting an existing C++/QML application to Google
> > NaCl, and I found that Qt had attempted a port a couple years ago:
> > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client. From what I've
> > found online, it looks like it's unsupported and no longer works with
> > the latest Qt and NaCl toolchain. Does anyone know the history of this
> > project and why it was abandoned? If I can revive the port to work
> > with the latest NaCl toolchain, is that something that could be
> > considered for upstreaming?
>
> Yes, it would be welcome in the Qt Project. The reason why it didn't go any
> further is that people probably got busy and did not have the time to
> continue
> supporting it.
>
> > I'm currently only looking into porting what's necessary for getting
> > the QML engine/renderer running. Can anyone familiar with NaCl think
> > of any showstoppers for this subset of Qt functionality? It looks like
> > NaCl has an implementation of OpenGLES2, and worst case, if it doesn't
> > support JIT, V4 has an interpreter option.
>
> You probably will find problems in the QtNetwork library and, thus, Qt
> Quick's
> remote file and XML HTTP  Requests support.
>
> > Does anyone have experience with the Qt for NaCl project? Any
> > tips/advice/considerations on attempting such a port?
> >
> > I sent a similar e-mail to interest a while ago and got a response
> > about QmlWeb. While it looks interesting, it unfortunately won't work
> > with C++ QObjects.
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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