[SailfishDevel] Starting point for building packages

[Ove Kåven]

Den 27. feb. 2014 22:32, skrev Tobias Brunner:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the SailfishOS SDK. I'd like to build the ownCloud client for
> SailfishOS and create a RPM package for easy installation at the Jolla.
> The documentation on how to build the ownCloud sync client is here:
> http://doc.owncloud.org/desktop/1.5/building.html
>
> But now I'm looking for a hint on how to build software for SailfisOS.
> The SDK is up and running, and now? The howto's are all about how to
> create a new software, but not about how to build and package an
> existing one.
> I know how to build software on linux: ./configure; make; make install.
> (And resolve needed dependencies). How can this three commands be mapped
> to the SailfishOS world?

To build SyncEvolution, I personally prefer to just ssh into the Mer 
build engine, enter Scratchbox, and then run the standard Linux stuff 
from there. Probably not for the faint of heart, though. (Although it 
might also be possible to build from QtCreator, it wouldn't gain me 
much, since it's not a Qt project. Though perhaps I could try it anyway, 
just for fun.)

To ssh into the build machine, I have this in my .ssh/config

Host sailfish
  HostName localhost
  User mersdk
  IdentityFile ~/SailfishOS/vmshare/ssh/private_keys/engine/mersdk
  Port 2222

Now I can just do "ssh sailfish" (after starting the VM, which can be 
done from the QtCreator IDE, though there are other ways)

In the VM, I type

sb2 -t SailfishOS-armv7hl

Now I'm in the ARM sandbox, and can build ARM rpms using standard Linux 
commands (rpmbuild, etc).

If I need to install some development packages, I do it either from 
QtCreator, or from a ssh into the build engine (from *outside* the sandbox):

sdk-manage --devel --install SailfishOS-armv7hl package1 package2...

(I can use e.g. zypper search to find out what's available)