[QBS] Support for Qt on Android

[salatix at web.de]

I followed your instructions to setup the toolchain for Android
but when I try to build a project with 
$ qbs profile:"qt57-andgcc49_armv7
I still get the same error: 
"The profile 'qt57-andgcc49_armv7-armv5te' does not exist.".
I also tried using older Qt Version but they did not work either.
At the moment I don't know what else to try.

I would like to know which version of Qbs you were using?
and what the Qbs file you are building looks like?

Thank you very much for your effort :)

Tobias

> Gesendet: Freitag, 16. September 2016 um 06:23 Uhr
> Von: Ch'Gans <chgans at gna.org>
> An: salatix at web.de
> Cc: "Jake Petroules" <Jake.Petroules at qt.io>, "qbs at qt-project.org" <qbs at qt-project.org>
> Betreff: Re: Re: [QBS] Support for Qt on Android
>
> On 16 September 2016 at 15:47, Ch'Gans <chgans at gna.org> wrote:
> > On 16 September 2016 at 01:49,  <salatix at web.de> wrote:
> >> I am building on linux. I also tried setting up the toolchain with qbs-setup-toolchains but it would not
> >> detect the android toolchain. So I tried to configure it  in the qbs-config-ui but it didn't help either
> >> because I still got the error of the missing armv5 profile (which does not make any sense to me
> >> because I am using armv7...).
> >> In Qt Creator the profile looks fine to me and the profile it refers to actually exists in $HOME/.config
> >> /QtProject/qbs/ but as I soon as QtC tries to parse the qbs it is looking for an armv5 profile which
> >> does not exist. The issue is similiar to one of the bugs Jake referred to https://bugreports.qt.io
> >> /browse/QBS-881.
> >>
> >> Were you able to parse a qbs project with your profile for qt on Android?
> >>
> >> Thanks for helping with my problem :)
> >
> > This is how far i manage to go:
> >
> > # After failing setting up the toolchain manually, i discovered a new
> > qbs tool... ;)
> > $ qbs-setup-android --ndk-dir /opt/android/android-ndk-r12b/ --sdk-dir
> > /opt/android/android-sdk-linux/ android
> > # Et voilà! (almost)
> >
> > $ qbs-setup-qt /opt/Qt/5.7/android_armv7/bin/qmake qt57-andgcc49_armv7
> > Creating profile 'qt57-andgcc49_armv7'.
> > WARNING: You need to set up toolchain information before you can use
> > this Qt version for building. However, no toolchain profile was found.
> > Either create one using qbs-setup-toolchains and set it as this
> > profile's base profile or add the toolchain settings manually to this
> > profile.
> >
> > $ qbs config profiles.qt57-andgcc49_armv7.baseProfile android-armv7a
> >
> > # Cannot build my project, qbs tells me to set these up
> > $ qbs config profiles.android.Android.ndk.toolchainVersion 4.9
> > $ qbs config profiles.android.Android.ndk.hostArch linux-x86_64
> > $ qbs config profiles.android.Android.ndk.toolchainVersionNumber 4.9
> >
> > At this stage, i can run qbs, but my build fails, due to some weird
> > STL issues i am currently investigating... (can't find "algorithm"
> > header)
> > Qbs tries to build my code with
> > "-isystem/opt/android/android-ndk-r12b/sources/cxx-stl/system/include",
> > which should be instead
> > "-isystem/opt/android/android-ndk-r12b/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/4.9/include/"
> > This is where the header is located, and this is where android-g++
> > mkspec points to.
> > I'm currently investigating the source of
> > /opt/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/qbs/share/qbs/modules/cpp/android-gcc.qbs
> >
> > Just found a workaround, i'm pretty sure i should set that in my own
> > qbs files, but will do for now
> > $ qbs config profiles.android.Android.ndk.appStl gnustl_shared
> >
> > And now trying to solve another issue:
> > arm-linux-androideabi-g++: error: unrecognized command line option
> > '--fix-cortex-a8'
> >
> > Which is set in
> > /opt/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/qbs/share/qbs/modules/Android/ndk/utils.js
> > when abi is "armeabi-v7a", which is my case, ... weird!
> 
> This one is related to the new way (Qbs-1.6) of declaring linkerFlags,
> I got a warning message about this:
> WARNING: Enabling linker flags compatibility mode. cpp.linkerFlags and
> cpp.platformLinkerFlags escaping is handled automatically beginning in
> Qbs 1.6. When upgrading to Qbs 1.6, you should only pass raw linker
> flags to these properties; do not escape them using -Wl or -Xlinker.
> This allows Qbs to automatically supply the correct linker flags
> regardless of whether the linker chosen is the compiler driver or
> system linker (see the documentation for cpp.linkerMode for more
> information). This message can be silenced by setting your Project's
> minimumQbsVersion to 1.6 (and the new behavior will take effect).
> 
> My understanding is that the old behaviour is kept if i don't
> explicitly require Qbs 1.6 (which is my case so far), yet
> modules/Android/ndk/utils.js returns linker flags without the -Wl
> prefix, which seems to cause troubles...
> 
> OK, I have now switched to minimumQbsVersion="1.6", and the error is gone.
> 
> BTW, why do i have to set minimumQbsVersion="1.6" in all my
> sub-projects? I thought this was enough to set that up in the
> top-level project...
> 
> So, FYI, I am now able to build my whole project for Android as
> described above! \o/
> I now have to work on deployment, and see if it runs!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> >
> > Will keep posted!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. September 2016 um 02:07 Uhr
> >>> Von: "Chris Gagneraud" <chgans at googlemail.com>
> >>> An: salatix at web.de
> >>> Cc: "Jake Petroules" <Jake.Petroules at qt.io>, "qbs at qt-project.org" <qbs at qt-project.org>
> >>> Betreff: Re: [QBS] Support for Qt on Android
> >>>
> >>> > QtCreator manage its own Qbs profiles, that you cannot (easily) re-use
> >>> > "manually".
> >>> > Have you try to run "qbs setup-toolchain" and see if it picks up the
> >>> > android one?
> >>> >
> >>> >Chris
> >>> I've just tried here, after installing all Android, Java and Qt
> >>> packages and selecting an android kit, QtC tells me:
> >>>
> >>> Cannot find the android build step.
> >>> Error while building/deploying project XYZ (kit: Android for
> >>> armeabi-v7a (GCC 4.9, Qt 5.7.0))
> >>> When executing step "Deploy to Android device"
> >>>
> >>> Tools->Options->Qbs seems to be setup correctly
> >>> (cpp.toolchainInstallPath/Prefix points to my Android NDK toolchain)
> >>>
> >>> I had a quick go at setting up the toolchain manually with
> >>> qbs-setup-toolchain, but it refuses to detect the toolchain....
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, your problem seems to be different since your associated Qbs
> >>> profile look corrupted/missing.
> >>>
> >>> Which platform are you building on?
> >>>
> >>> On Linux, QtC profiles are stored under $HOME/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/qbs
> >>>
> >>> Whereas your "regular" qbs profiles are stored under
> >>> $HOME/.config/QtProject/qbs/
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>
> >>>
>