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Instructions for Building Qtopia Desktop

Contents

• Introduction
• Windows
• Linux

Introduction

This document describes sets out instructions for the building of Qtopia Desktop.

Windows

1. Qt 3.2.1 and commercial source code for Qtopia are required to build Qtopia Desktop. Download and install Qt 3.2.1 for windows with default settings, (ie install to c:\qt\3.2.1, substitute below if different)
2. From a command prompt,
   
   If QMAKESPEC has not been set, set QMAKESPEC appropriately for the compiler that is to be used.
   For MS Visual C++:
   

                   set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc
   

   
   Otherwise if the newer .NET compiler is to be used:
   

                   set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc.net
   

   
   Compile Qt with the -qwinexport configuration option:
   

                   set QTDIR=c:\qt\3.2.1
                   set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%PATH%
                   cd %QTDIR%
                   configure -thread -qwinexport
                   cd src
                   nmake clean
                   nmake
   

   
   Ensure assistant.exe and qaxcontainer.dll were built in step one, if not compile them with:
   

                   cd %QTDIR%\tools\assistant
                   nmake
                   cd %QTDIR%\extensions\activeqt
                   nmake
   

   
   Qt is now ready to be used with Qtopia Desktop
3. Download and install tmake 1.11 (ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/freebies/tmake/tmake-1.11.zip) (example commands assume it is installed to c:\tmake-1.11)
4. Install Qtopia source to c:\qtopia\1.9.0 (substitute below if different)
5. From command prompt, Compile Qtopia Desktop and all of its plugins:
   

                   set QT3DIR=c:\qt\3.2.1
                   set QPEDIR=c:\qtopia\1.9.0
                   set TMAKEDIR=c:\tmake-1.11
                   set TMAKEPATH=%TMAKEDIR%\lib\win32-msvc
                   set PATH=%QPEDIR%\bin;%QT3DIR%\bin;%TMAKEDIR%\bin;%PATH%
                   cd %QPEDIR%\src
                   configure -no-qtopia
                   nmake
   

6. Using the regedit program ensure that the qtopiadir registry entry in the path \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Trolltech\palmcenter points to c:\qtopia\1.9.0\src\qtopiadesktop\

Linux

1. Qt 3.2.1 and commercial source code for Qtopia are required to build Qtopia Desktop. Download and extract Qt 3.2.x for X11.
2. Compile qt:
   

                   tar xfz qt-x11-commercial-3.2.x.tar.gz
                   cd qt-x11-commercial-3.2.x
                   export QTDIR=$PWD
                   export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
                   cd $QTDIR
                   ./configure -thread
                   make
                   cd ..
   

   
   
3. Extract Qtopia source package for example to ~/qtopia-source-1.9.0 (substitute below if different)
4. Compile Qtopia Desktop as follows:
   

                   tar xfz qtopia-source-1.9.0.tar.gz
                   cd qtopia-source-1.9.0
                   export QPEDIR=$PWD
                   export QT3DIR=$QTDIR
                   export PATH=$QPEDIR/bin:$QT3DIR/bin:$PATH
                   ./configure -no-qtopia
                   make
   

   
   

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