Getting a Linux PC set up for Qt Development for N900 - where to start?
 

Developing apps for N900 seems to me to have been something of a moving target, and in the past there have been several alternative approaches.

I'm keen to make a very simple app, but not sure what's the best way to go about it.

I've taken a look at http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Qt but a lot of documentation seems out of date, and links to documentation on Nokia's website often no longer work.

What do people currently developing Qt apps for N900 do? I don't need the "latest and greatest" Qt version or anything.

I'm familiar with QT Creator, Scratchbox and MADDE - I even went to the trouble of installing all of them at various points - I'm just not sure which are still useful (and viable).

Thanks

Re: Getting a Linux PC set up for Qt Development for N900 - where to start?
 

I personally used the instructions below to install the SDK in a Debian VM.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...K_Installation

I then create whatever in QtCreator, build a .deb and scp it to my N900 for testing purposes.

Re: Getting a Linux PC set up for Qt Development for N900 - where to start?
 

Ahh, which version of Debian are you running in the VM? Squeeze? I'm running Wheezy on my 'bare metal' (i.e. not virtualised), although if need be I could set up a Squeeze VM...

Re: Getting a Linux PC set up for Qt Development for N900 - where to start?
 

I use Ubuntu 64-bit and had issues installing scratchbox.
I then noticed someone on the forum used a VM, the rational behind this is you don't update this and avoid potentially damaging your development environment. It seemed Squeeze was the best option when I read up about it.

Also note the warning that the GUI SDK seems broken, IIRC I used the manual instructions.

Re: Getting a Linux PC set up for Qt Development for N900 - where to start?
 

I faced the same problem gui sdk in linux was not a good idea.

First I used scratchbox on debian squeeze. I could setup everything fine except debhelper. But I wasn't able to make proper packages and send to autobuilder.

On my laptop I running a win7 and need to make some Qt apps for windows. So I decided to install the nokia Qt SDK 1.2.1 (offline version). It was easy to install and easy to make a deployment. The only thing was that you need to change your debian/rules file to work with the autobuilder and add a custom step to create dsc;tar.gz;changes files for the extra assistant.
Now I feel really bad because I develop for linux on windows.
Sometimes it is really frustrating to invest so much time to setup a crosstool compared to the time for writing a small app.