[Interest] Testing with Windows Phone, first impressions

[Kalinowski Maurice]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply, but just returned from Christmas vacation.

First of all, make sure that you have Windows Phone 8.1 (both on device and also SDK). 8.0 is not a supported version anymore since Qt 5.3 even I think.

Secondly regarding some of your issues.


-        Using the template app with Qt Quick Controls causes some unknown issue in winrtrunner and hence Qt Creator is not capable of launching the app properly. We are trying to identify this issue and resolve it for a upcoming patch release. It is really strange that non Qt Quick Controls apps work, even plain Qt Quick 2 applications. However you can use Visual Studio to deploy and run and debug your application.

-        Talking about debugging. Microsoft does not provide any debugging interface for Windows Phone, hence we would need to either reverse engineer or set up our own debugging infrastructure via Core Connectivity. Both are tedious tasks and hope is that upcoming releases will improve on the situation. Again, you can use Visual Studio for debugging. If that fails, please create a bug report.

-        Qt libraries are shipped without debugging information (same as on desktop windows). If you want to debug into Qt, then you’ll need to compile it on your own.

-        Using Windows Phone 8.1 and SDK should lift the amount of apps to 5 I think, at least more than 2. So it seems you have an old setup.

BR,
Maurice


Von: interest-bounces+maurice.kalinowski=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+maurice.kalinowski=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] Im Auftrag von Harri Pasanen
Gesendet: Monday, 5 January, 2015 8:40 AM
An: Matthias Degenkolb; interest at qt-project.org
Betreff: Re: [Interest] Testing with Windows Phone, first impressions



On 05/01/2015 07:56, Matthias Degenkolb wrote:
Hi,

also played with my Lumia 630 and Qt 5.4 in the last days.
I can successfully build and deploy Non-Qt Apps with Visual Studio 2013, also I manage to build & deploy a Qt-based app to the Windows Phone.

BUT:
- I cannot debug. From some postings I saw that you have to convert the .pro to Visual Studio project (for debugging?), however Visual Studio Express always says it cannot open the created .vcxproj file (something like "this edition does not support native projects" --> but I can use C++-based Windows Phone projects without issues ...).
- The app runs smoothly on Win32 (mingw) and Android (ok, Qt 5.3.2, haven't tried Android and 5.4 yet). However on Windows Phone I see the Qt splash screen (it doesn't show on other platforms) and then everything stays white.


I submitted https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-43604
about my problems.   I had not even tried debugging yet, but seems that you are right.   When looking at kits, it has a warning icon about "No debugger setup" and
in debuggers tab none are auto-detected.   I wonder if it could be setup manually...

I'm a bit surprised that WinRT support made it prominently to Qt 5.4 release notes, given these problems.   But given that public support, now the problems should be addressed quickly, so I'm not complaining too loudly... :)


Harri


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