[SailfishDevel] Third party modules / header files

[Putze Sven]

Hi there,

For some time now I am wondering what the best practice would be for using third party components. First off all I want to sketch my understanding so far:

# I can use any RPM package that is available via "zypper" on the emulator AKA "The SailfishOS Emulator". SSH in that thingy and install the files. That way the package is there, where it is needed and used in the end.
# The same package plus header files are installed in the "Mer build engine for cross compilation", so the compiler and linker can find/use them during compilation/linking time (and packaging time later on)

Development is done on the "QtCreator integrated development environment" plus some plugins for the communication with the virtual machines (and later on the physical device). This is the only platform dependent piece of software since the rest is done in VMs. So far so good, now the washy part.

# For developing convenience it would be nice if the editor in QtCreator knew about the header files that are part of the earlier mentioned packages.
What's the best practice here? Do you guys mount a drive from the "Mer build engine for cross compilation" to simply re-use those header files for the QtCreator? Do you copy them over to a local path? Am I on the wrong path? ;-)

# Finally there must be a way to tell the build system that there is a dependency to an existing RPM package.
I assume that is somehow done in the .YAML file in the "Requires" section. Do I simply add the name of the package here?


If that has been asked and answered before just point me to the appropriate resource, that I have googled it wrong.


Best regards
Sven