Hi all, this want to be my feedback about my experience with qmake and the Ubuntu SDK. As the title could suggest, I hadn't good times: I don't know if it's due lack of documentation, or there is something wrong in the SDK, or whatever. But certainly something has to improve.
For those who don't know me, I'm a long time core app developer, and in my free time I also developed a couple of apps. I'm saying this just to evidence I'm not new to Ubuntu world, and before writing this mail I spent a lot of times trying to figure what's wrong. Let's talk about the topic: qmake. I've an app (100balls[0]) which uses an external plugin (Bacon2D[1]) and I use qmake to have all working together. Since the game is stable enough, I don't do more than one release per month, and every time I try to do a release I've to spend 2/3 days to create a click package because chroot doesn't work. Last time I did a release (last week of Feb, IIRC) I was on vivid (and I'm still on it) and I used a 15.04 chroot. To have chroot working I had to add the sdk ppa (seriously, I need a PPA on an unstable version?). This time the *same* chroot doesn't work anymore. It creates the click package without any error, but then the app doesn't start on the phone because it doesn't find the Bacon2D module. When I do "Maintain" on the chroot and try to launch QMake I've this error: (click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf)root@artemis:/home/rpadovani# qmake qmake: could not find a Qt installation of '' I also tried with a new chroot, but I've the same issue. I don't know if it's a problem of mine, an sdk problem, a lack of documentation or whatever. But it's annoying to have to spend more time trying to have a working chroot than writing code. Regards, R. [0]:https://github.com/rpadovani/100balls [1]:https://github.com/Bacon2D/Bacon2D -- Riccardo Padovani <[email protected]> www.rpadovani.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
