Sailfish devs knows why SDK is Alpha. Mostly related to API restrictions for Harbour. When everything good will be whitelisted SDK will get Beta and then Final :)

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

Yeah there are some missing/not allowed API I hope to see ASAP.

I personally need a NFC API.

Also python/pyotherside should be supported.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

Very useful and complete guide (121 pages in PDF !) from Sven Putze :
Developing with SailfishOS - a short introduction.
It was announced in the SailfishDevel list, which I also recommend to follow for anyone interested in developing for Sailfish.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

In the faq it says that you should log in as user mersdk but the sb2 arm target has no user/group called mersdk. Is this a bug or feature?

Edit: Which means that rpm is complaining about wrong user/group so I have to add them manually on every friggin sdk update.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

Don't log into the ARM target. Use mb2 outside the sb2 targets directly in the VM. And there, user mersdk does exist.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

I don't log in to the arm target. Is that even possible? No I log in to the sdk as user "mersdk" as it says in the faq and then i build rpm packages using the sb2 command. And rpm complains about wrong user/group because user mersdk is missing in the arm target.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

use mb -t TARGET build when build rpms it calls sb2 for u.

i write this on jolla so may remember wrong about -t maybe -T anyway mb is the way for most usercases.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

Okay, getting desperate here. Trying to run the SDK on Debian Wheezy. Hitting the "Start Sdk"-button will always give "MerSDK: Timeout waiting for reply from server" though so I get nowhere. I've been looking around at different tutorials and guides but nothing has gotten me anywhere so far.
This was aaall so easy on Harmattan...

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

I think we've missed this one sorry. Can you elaborate a little bit more? Where exactly do you try to start the SDK? From Virtualbox? I haven't tried the sdk with wheezy but I think it should work without a hitch. Try to install vbox before you install the sdk and then try to start vbox and run the MerSDK image from there.

Re: Sailfish SDK Alpha 1312 Qt5 released
 

Downloaded the SDK to give it a go. While not a dev, I know my ./configure make make install. I anticipated this will be different due to VMs and cross compiling, but I've been scratching my head for two days now, and it's going nowhere... Whenever I try building a project, the compiler just spits out
What on earth am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Well d'oh and facepalm. Just found out I had a separate copy of scratchbox installed which used the same .scratchbox2 config directory. Removed all remnants of it (including $PATH), reinstalled the SDK and projects started building...