Thread: Alternative Devevelopment Environment
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Ricardo is offline Ricardo
2010-05-20 , 13:54
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#9
Hi, everyone!

I think I'm seeing some misunderstandings:

Originally Posted by TheAccountant
I have a Intel P4 3ghz CPU and 4GB ram that runs at 400mhz. Currently I am running Arch but have tried loads of different OS's.
Originally Posted by Joorin View Post
400MHz? Slower than a N900? I think your problem might be processor speed paired with the enormous structure that is modern toolkits.
I think his computer's processor speed is 3GHz, and RAM speed is 400MHz... so processor speed should not be a problem.

Originally Posted by gri
The Nokia Qt SDK even runs on my (very slow) eeepc. So I don't have a clue.
This can be a source of confusion for many people - it sure was for me, before...

Nokia provides Qt SDK, Qt SDK for Maemo and Nokia Qt SDK Beta (for Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo platforms, running on Windows only ATM). They sound very much the same, but are different tools!

The Nokia Qt SDK Beta is the simplest and easiest to install and use, IMO. The only problem is that it uses Qt 4.6.2, so your applications won't run on the N900 until the next firmware update (whenever it is released).

I'm also using Qt for Maemo on my Windows machine via a virtualized Ubuntu (v. 9.10) installation (with VirtualBox). With this you can run your applications on your N900 without the firmware update. I installed everything from scratch, but it can be a very time consuming experience... I'd suggest you to download a Maemo SDK virtual image, but I think you will have to wait for the new images to be released.

Anyway, even virtualized, Qt Creator runs fine here on a Core2 E6550 @ 2.33GHz, with 2GB RAM (and I give the virtual OS only 512MB RAM). I suggest you to make a fresh Debian or Ubuntu installation, followed by the Qt installation, and then build a simple example (even for the desktop) to see how it behaves. If it works out fine, your problem is somewhere else...
Last edited by Ricardo; 2010-05-20 at 13:56.