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-	3) The docs(man & http), example code and tutorials.	+	3) The docs(man
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-	http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qt-embedded/qt-emb-doc_2.3.2-2_all.deb	+
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-	4) Other files	+
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-	** http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.1.4-1_arm.deb	+
-	http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3_arm.deb	+
-	http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libm/libmng/libmng-dev_1.0.3-3_arm.deb	+
-	** http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libj/libjpeg6b/libjpeg-progs_6b-5_arm.deb	+
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-	** OPTIONAL I got all these files just to get/have the headers in case they are	+
-	needed later. And so linker could find libmng & libpng.	+
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-	==Steps==	+
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-	1) I used this command to unpack everything into a temporary directory on the CF card.	+
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-	dpkg-deb -xX <filename>.deb /mnt/cf/temp	+
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-	This puts everything in a tree /mnt/cf/temp/usr.	+
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-		+
-	2) I moved all the Qt HTML files to my SD card where I store all my man pages (converted to HTML using man2html).	+
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-	mv /mnt/cf/temp/usr/share/doc/html /mnt/card/html/qt-emed	+
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-	3) Move it to where gcc lives.	+
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-	mv /mnt/cf/temp/usr/bin/moc /mnt/cf/bin	+
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-	4) This fools moc which is looking for this stdc lib of this name in $QTDIR (/home/QtPalmtop).	+
-		+
-	ln -s /mnt/cf/lib/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so $QTDIR/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3	+
-		+
-	5) what Qt expects gcc to be called	+
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-	cp /mnt/cf/bin/c++ /mnt/cf/bin/g++	+
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-	6)	+
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-	mv /mnt/cf/temp/usr/include/qt /mnt/cf/include	+
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-	7)	+
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-	ln -s /mnt/cf/include/qt $QTDIR/include	+
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-	8)	+
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-	mv /mnt/cf/temp/usr/lib/* /mnt/cf/lib	+
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-	9) Create all library links:	+
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-	> cd $QTDIR	+
-	> ln -s libjpeg.so libjpeg.a	+
-	> ln -s /mnt/cf/lib/libmng.a .	+
-	> ln -s /mnt/cf/lib/libpng.a .	+
-	> ln -s libqpe.so.1.5.0 libqpe.a # just in case :)	+
-	> ln -s libqte.so.2.3.2 libqte.a	+
-	> ln -s libz.so libz.a	+
-		+
-	10) Only thing left was getting some DEFINES defined in the Makefiles. Had to add -DQT_NO_DRAGANDDROP & -DQT_NO_PROPERTIES to the SYSCONF_CXXFLAGS	+
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-	SYSCONF_CXXFLAGS= -pipe -DQWS -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -O2 -fno-default-inline -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DRAGANDDROP -DQT_NO_PROPERTIES	+
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-	11) The example files have hardcoded paths to the includes. I had to remove these too.	+
-		+
-	==Final Note==	+
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-	* This is as far as I have gotten. Feedback is welcome.	+
-	* I waste space on my cards because Fat16 doesn't support links. You can do better if you have ext2 formated cards.	+
-	* I do get memory warnings when compiling, but I only have the konsole open and I ignore them and everything compiles and links fine.	+
-	* If I compile only and then link seperatly it is happier less to no warnings. Also I tried without Qtopia running and it works well. Not even slow really.	+
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-	Your Milage May Vary :)	+
-		+
-	-Enjoy	+
-	Jim Murff	+
-	jmurff@pacbell.net	+

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Revision as of 09:47, 3 July 2007

• Setup of Qt Embeded on the Zaurus
• by Jim Murff March 23, 2002
• Re-creation of the original document - website no longer available

Background

I have been trying for a few weeks various things to get Qt to compile on the Zaurus. I was resigned to PyQt then I thought I'd give it one more try. Searching google for "Qt embedded" proved to be the thing that got me to the right resources. I found this: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian. It has everything you can ever imagine in debian package format which BusyBox on the Z happens to be able to unpack.

I was able to get qt-docs, qt-dev and support packages.The site has everything compiled already in many formats including ARM. Also it has lots of source.

Weirdly, using ARM compiled stuff, once I got everything in place it would compile fine but linker core-dumped right at the end of the link when it was close to dumping the executible. I thought i was done for. My goal was to minimally edit the Makefiles that came with the code so they would just work. But all the libraries listed were static. Then I realized - duh! - most of the libraries are already on the Z in dynamic format. So, I created links to them that the Makefiles were looking for (e.g. libqte.a -> to the libqte.so.x.x.x etc.) Then I added the two optional libraries listed in the makefiles (libpng, libmng)that were not on the Z -- And it worked!! The only other problem I found was on the more complicated tutorials and examples I needed some #defines. This required reading some of the header files.

I am not sure what I can legally distribute; so right now here are the just steps I took. I think a script would work fine for this but that's a later step.

My Zaurus

• Rom 1.11
• 128Mb SD card (fat16)
• 512Mb CF card (fat16)
• ZGCC installed on CF card.

Packages

1) Readme like file. Gave me a clue what else QT needed. (libpng, libmng, libz, libjpeg)

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qt-embedded/qt-embedded_2.3.2-2.dsc 

2) The distrubution with all header files.

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qt-embedded/libqt-emb-dev_2.3.2-2_arm.deb

3) The docs(man