Thread: [Qt] Releasing .deb package generated by Qt Creator to Maemo Extras
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danielwilms is offline danielwilms
2010-07-06 , 07:46
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Originally Posted by strekazoid View Post
I've created my little application using Qt Creator 2.0. Now I want to release it to Maemo Extras. .deb package is succesfully created. However Maemo Extras assistant requires .changes file.

Question: where I can get this .changes file? Using Nokia Qt SDK on Windows XP.
Unfortunately this you cannot do within the IDE, but you can use MADDE terminal for it. I have written a blog-post about how to do it for a desktop-widget. I think starting from scratch might be easier, than modifying the template which is created by qt creator. Further there is a good packaging guide in the wiki.

If you use the blog-post there are some modifications to be done.

1) the desktop file is just for desktop widgets, but here is an application example. The desktop file is needed that your application shows up in the task launcher. Otherwise you can just start it from command-line.
2) build dependencies is:

Code:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5),libqt4-dev
3) no additional application dependencies needed, so it is just:

Code:
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
4) use mad dpkg-buildpackage -sa -S instead of mad dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

If you have any problems, let me know.

Daniel
 

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