[Interest] QtCreator

[Konstantin Tokarev]

13.01.2012, 17:41, "Duane" <duane.hebert at group-upc.com>:
> 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?

MinGW tagerts Windows, not Linux.

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Regards,
Konstantin