[Qt-interest] QtCreator && Autopackaging for Maemo

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 00:32, Christian Kandeler
<christian.kandeler at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 12:13 AM, ext Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
>> When using QtCreator to package Maemo apps, the "Create Package" step
>> configuration in the Project settings view does not allow me to remove
>> the default install target it adds.  In this case, I'm building a
>> library, yet Creator expects to find an "app" target (in this case
>> "vnsupport" instead of "libvnsupport.so", and it will fail to build no
>> matter what.  Short of adding a dummy file with that name to make it
>> happy (if that even works), is there any other way I can coerce it
>> into packaging libraries by themselves?
>
> I assume you are using Creator 2.0 from the SDK? Maemo support was
> somewhat lacking in that version; only simple application projects work
> well with it. The current 2.0 branch (which will become release 2.1)
> allows you to disable packaging. The current master branch (which will
> become 2.2) vastly improves the packaging and deployment functionality
> (and also aims to properly support library and subdirs projects). If you
> are not tied to the current release for some reason, I'd suggest you
> compile your own Creator from the current master branch.

I actually compiled a more recent version since I posted, and yes, it
does work better.  I'm too tired to remember which branch it was,
though.  Thanks for the details.
Cheers,

 - Jeffery MacEachern

> Christian
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