[Interest] QtCreator

[Duane]

On 1/12/2012 4:05 PM, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> Den 12-01-2012 16:46, Duane skrev:
>> I have creator installed on a widows desktop and can build with MSVC8 or
>> MingW tool chains.  Is it possible to set this up to build and deploy to
>> an embedded linux or standard linux target?  If so, how do I get setup
>> the toolchain?
>
> It is possible, yes. You can get a cross compiler and build all the
> libraries yourself, add the new tool chain to QtC and keep maintaining
> such an environment. But it is an incredibly big task. It's the wrong
> solution.
>
> Install Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare or something like it, and install any
> recent linux distribution inside it. It's a much much much (and a bit
> more) better solution.
>
> I'm using VirtualBox with a Linux build per customer on my main laptop.
> Easy to switch between setups, and I can save the disk image when I'm
> not working for them, so I can easily get back to it.

Thanks for the suggestion and I think it is the way to go.  My personal 
preference would be to just setup a dual boot as I've used VMWare and 
it's fairly sluggish.  However, I've been tasked with trying to setup 
something that works on windows.

I'm not sure what you mean by a cross compiler.  My target is x86 
hardware with an atom proc.  It's currently running Win7 embedded and I 
can build on a windows desktop using Visual Studio and run on the 
target.  Shouldn't I be able to use Creator with MingW as the tool chain
and a Qt linux libs?