[SailfishDevel] no c++ in Sailfish?

[Wim de Vries]

Thanks for the support.

I won't be in a hurry until .... the new Jolla phone becomes available 
:-)


David Greaves schreef op 2013-04-17 12:10:
> On 17/04/13 10:34, Wim de Vries wrote:
>> christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch schreef op 2013-04-16 23:05:
>>> If so, what ends up (if anything) in the Sailfish SDK and Emulator 
>>> VMs?
>> I am just concentrating on the MER SDK for now.
>> Building the QtSerialPort project goes without errors.
>> But I haven't yet found out where the libs and headers did end up.
>> (I am not very experienced on VMs:
>> due to the directory mapping between host and VM it's hard to 
>> determine what is
>> living on which (virtual) machine)
>> Building pilotnavigator fails because QtSerial headers are not found.
> 
> This is the problem
> 
>> 
>>> Depending on this, you may or may not need to deploy something to 
>>> one
>>> or both in order to build and run your pilotnavigator project which
>>> imports QtSerialPort.
>> Yes, but where and how can I deploy QtSerialport on both VMs?
> 
> This points to the solution :)
> 
> For those unsure about terminology: we say QtSerialPort is a
> dependency for pilotnavigator; it could be a runtime dependency (eg if 
> it
> provides an application or service only used during execution) or it 
> may also be
> a build-time dependency (eg if some C++ code needs header files).
> 
> In order for Sailfish to resolve this dependency automatically, 
> QtSerialPort
> needs to be packaged into an rpm and SailfishOS needs to be told where 
> to get it
> from.
> 
> So step 1 is to make and rpm of QtSerialPort, step 2 is to put it 
> somewhere (a
> repository) where SailfishOS can retrieve it - either when building 
> the
> pilotnavigator app or when a user installs it.
> 
> Both of these steps are still being polished - they are both possible 
> right now
> but they are more complicated than we want them to be.
> 
> I'll get some instructions pulled together - if you want to start by 
> yourself
> then look at the spec file for making rpms and find out about the 
> merproject OBS
> for building/publishing them as a repo (#sailfishos irc channel may
> be a good start)
OK.
> 
>>> But stepping back a bit: are you actually asking the right question?
> Sensible thing to ask but even if not, this is still an important 
> thing to be
> able to do.
> 
> David
> 
>>> p.s how are the thermals in Holland? We had the first real credible
>>> thermals this weekend, and boy were they wonderful and so well
>>> deserved after such a long winter ...And in 15 years of flying, I
>>> don't think I have ever been able to do a top-landing in snow 
>>> before!
>> I fly MLA nowadays, but I still use thermals to save fuel (not 
>> appreciated by
>> other motorized pliots!)
> 
> Ah, I miss my hang-glider :)