[SailfishDevel] Howto: Sailfish SDK in Virtual Machines on Mac OS-X

Nathan nettym28 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 19:41:35 UTC 2013


Not a prob. at all, I'm glad/hope it did in some small way :)

On 1/03/13 4:31 AM, Jukka Eklund wrote:
> Thanks, for the feedback it really helps.
>
> -Jukka
> (@JollaHQ twittering dude)
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Nathan <nettym28 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nettym28 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The prob. is it was never specific, lots of folk started making
>     noises about Jolla getting it out ASAP*, there finally was comms
>     about end of Feb, but no clarification about Linux only.
>     I believe the original source was via the official Twitter
>     account, now it may have been further clarified in subsequent
>     tweets, but that's the prob. with the medium, there should be a
>     centralised news blog too.
>     Twitter for engagement, & the news blog for one way
>     official/finalised comms... Up to you guys though, I know you have
>     limited time/resources...
>
>     Cheers.
>     *there was a slightly earlier time-frame, but I can't recall what
>     that was OTTOMH
>
>
>     On 1/03/13 4:10 AM, Jukka Eklund wrote:
>>     Nathan, sorry for the misleading comms. For us to improve it
>>     would help if you remind where did you read or hear about the
>>     schedule including all platforms.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     -Jukka
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Nathan <nettym28 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:nettym28 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Aw man, you guys should've been way clearer with that in your
>>         comms, you absolutely made it sound like SDK -irrespective of
>>         platform- is coming by the end of Feb :(
>>         Thanks for the pointers on the source, i may have a closer
>>         look at some point, please try to get that beta out ASAP!
>>         Good job though, you guys are travelling those rough seas
>>         _fairly well_, I'm rooting for you, everyone in the relevant
>>         communities & even beyond are!
>>
>>
>>         On 1/03/13 1:24 AM, David Greaves wrote:
>>>>         On 1/03/13 12:02 AM, Martin Grimme wrote:
>>>>>         Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>         I would like to share my setup of how I managed to run the Sailfish
>>>>>         SDK on Mac OS-X. While you could of course run the SDK virtual machine
>>>>>         inside a Linux virtual machine, this would be terribly slow.
>>>>>         Instead, you want to run all three virtual machines, Linux, MerSDK,
>>>>>         SailfishOS Emulator directly on Mac OS.
>>>         This is a great writeup Martin - thanks for putting the energy in!
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 28/02/13 14:55, Nathan wrote:
>>>>         Thank-you sir!
>>>>
>>>>         N.B.
>>>>         I hope the official SDK for OSX/Win is still coming by the end of Feb, as
>>>>         promised by Jolla.
>>>         It's certainly coming.
>>>
>>>         The alpha SDK, released on 25th Feb, offers a pre-packaged installer for Linux.
>>>
>>>         The beta release will include OS-X and Windows installers - the schedule has not
>>>         been announced yet but it won't be today :)
>>>
>>>         Incidentally the source code for the native aspect of the SDK (ie Qt Creator) is
>>>         available and you can build and contribute to the open version of that for OS-X
>>>         or Windows today. (nb: by 'open version' I just mean unbranded) Once that is
>>>         running you should have no problems using the VDI files you find in the installer.
>>>
>>>         Incidentally, due to the EULA restrictions, you should extract the VDI files
>>>         yourself and not share them.
>>>
>>>         I'll see what we can do about making the images available in a more
>>>         click-through way but most of my energy is going into beta now so no promises or
>>>         dates.
>>>
>>>         David
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