[QtonPi] Volunteer wanted for generating Qt 5 binaries for Raspbian

[Johan Thelin]

Hello all,

We've been discussing this at my employer, Pelagicore, and we are
looking into this right now. We already have a build infrastructure in
place and the bandwidth required, so we are looking into the scripts
right now. I'll post updates on this list as soon as we have a deb
repo ready for use.

Best regards,

Johan Thelin

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The Foundations of Qt Development (ISBN: 1-59059-831-8)



On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Rodal Samuel <Samuel.Rodal at digia.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow Qt 5 and Raspberry Pi fans,
>
> Nightly .deb packages with Qt 5 binaries for Raspbian were generated until a
> month and a half ago, but the guys doing that have since stopped working on
> Qt full-time and thus have not been able to keep up with that.
>
> It would be nice to have such packages generated again and maybe even made
> easily available in the Raspbian apt repositories. Since I don't really have
> any packaging experience, I wanted to first see if there was someone else
> who would be interested in doing this, but I'm prepared to have a go at it
> if noone else volunteers.
>
> In addition to plugins, the following Qt libraries were part of the earlier
> package:
>
> libQt3DQuick.so  libQtCompositor.so  libQtCore.so  libQtGui.so
> libQtOpenGL.so        libQtQml.so             libQtQuick.so
> libQtScript.so       libQtSensors.so  libQtSvg.so   libQtV8.so
> libQtXml.so
> libQt3D.so       libQtConcurrent.so  libQtDBus.so  libQtNetwork.so
> libQtPrintSupport.so  libQtQuickParticles.so  libQtQuickTest.so
> libQtScriptTools.so  libQtSql.so      libQtTest.so  libQtWidgets.so
>
> So it's a good idea to at least include these in future packages if
> possible.
>
> QtWebKit was notably missing. Does anyone know if QtWebKit in a more recent
> version is building and running successfully on Raspbian?
>
> It's probably nice to at least include qmlscene in the package as well,
> since it allows writing and running QML 2 applications directly on the
> device without any recompilation. Unfortunately it seems an unsolved problem
> that qmake, moc, etc binaries are only built for the host when doing cross
> compilation and thus can not be included in the package.
>
> For building and packaging the beginner's guide might provide useful:
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/RaspberryPi_Beginners_guide
>
> Also the packaging scripts used for the earlier packages are available here:
> https://gitorious.org/packaging-scripts/packaging-scripts/trees/master
>
> Once we have Qt 5 packages it might be interesting to also have packages for
> things like the Snowshoe browser and maybe also some demos showing off Qt's
> capabilities, like the ones recently mentioned by Liz on the Raspberry Pi
> blog: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2076
>
> --
> Samuel Rødal - Digia, Qt
> Visit us on: http://qt.digia.com
>
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