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

[Daniel Bittencourt]

Yes, you're right. I Totally agree.

I should have narrowed down to large and complex apps when I was talking
about it the best solution. Sure, for small apps, it should take no time to
compile it on the pi itself. And like you said, it would avoid some cross
compiling problems you may get, down the road.

But, the more alternatives, the better, right?

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> > I think the cross compiling is the best solution for building the apps
> with
> > Qt5 since this would take a terrible amount of time if done solo in the
> > raspberry itself.
>
> This is a bit off-topic as the thread topic is about building Qt5
> itsels, but in general I disagree.
>
> There are certain applications which are well suitable for native
> builds. I have done such things on the pandaboard previously in a
> commercial project since it did not take too much time for a not so
> huge software project. On the contrary, I was able to avoid the
> difficulty of cross-compilation. Please note that when you use debian
> or ubuntu-arm like system, you already have the tools around to do the
> native build.
>
> I am not saying this is the defacto way, but I think there is no "best
> solution". It depends on the given case.
>
> > If some one wants to help me on this task, it would be more than welcome!
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 28 September 2012 08:16, Johan Thelin <e8johan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Lazlo,
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the tip! We do have an OBS-based infrastructure setup, but
> >> > not yet in the open. What we will do is this:
> >> >
> >> > 1. Get a deb repository up ASAP, building the deb using the scripts
> >> > pointed out in Samuels original post.
> >> > 2. Working on setting up a Raspbian OBS target and start building Qt 5
> >> > against it, making any tricks used to do so public.
> >>
> >> Sounds neat. I'm keen to include qt5 libs in the standard SD card
> >> image (updated irregularly, aiming to be roughly 'stable' nightly
> >> builds can be gotten from your deb repo).
> >>
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