[eipi]

Hi,

I have pieced together an application for inclusion in the community open source app store. It is made with QtCreator. The application, MaeFlight, currently runs on my N950.

I have created an account at the COBS, and have followed the instructions at Ref. 1. I used the mud2 utility to create the 3 files required for the OBS.

My package fails the build process. I have had a look at the error logs [2], and I cannot figure out if there is an issue on the OBS, or it is with my package. I am not an application developer, so there may be something obvious that I am missing. Does anyone have an idea on what could be going on here?

Many thanks for any help!


[1]. http://wiki.meego.com/Getting_started_with_OBS
[2]. MaeFlight Live Build Log

[eipi]

Well, I solved my build issues (*). Now I have another, The .deb created by the OBS installs fine to the N950, but there is no icon for it in the icon grid.

I looked at /usr/share/applications, and there is no .desktop file installed there.

However, the .deb built using QTCreator installs fine to the N950.

Is there something I should do differently with the OBS to get the .desktop file installed correctly?

For reference, here is the repository for the OBS .deb:

http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/eipi/Harmattan/armel/

The source files for the OBS are at:

https://build.pub.meego.com/package/...ct=home%3Aeipi

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: (*) Build issue *appeared* to be related to inconsistent version numbers in the changelog and desktop files. Set both to 1.0.0

[nicolai]

I asked the same question here
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?p=31890#post31890

No answers, besides "do it manually", but I don't know
how. I still wonder how it can be, that many other developers
can create their applications, but no one can explain how to
do it properly with qtcreator.

Nicolai

[rlinfati]

Add at the begin of you dot pro file.

contains(QT_CONFIG, maemo5): message(Maemo5)
contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan): message(Maemo6)
linux-g++-maemo:!contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan): {
MEEGO_VERSION_MAJOR = 1
MEEGO_VERSION_MINOR = 2
MEEGO_VERSION_PATCH = 0
MEEGO_EDITION = harmattan
DEFINES += MEEGO_EDITION_HARMATTAN
message(Maemo6-beta)
}

[rlinfati]

Also, i use a script to build the file from outside of qtcreator, rules.real is the rules file with some lineas uncomment (qmake, make, make clean and shlibdeps )

#!/bin/sh

rm -r debian
mkdir debian
cp qtc_packaging/debian_harmattan/* debian/
mv debian/rules.real debian/rules

~/QtSDK/Madde/bin/mad dpkg-buildpackage -sa -rfakeroot -I.git -I.gitignore -Iqtc_packaging -I*.pro.user

mv ../*.dsc ~/for-meego/
mv ../*.changes ~/for-meego/
mv ../*.tar.gz ~/for-meego/
mv ../*.deb ~/for-meego/

rm build-stamp configure-stamp _aegis
make distclean

[ $1 ] && rm -r debian

[eipi]

Wow! Thank you both very much! Your advice has solved my issue. I believe I can now deploy from QtCreator, as well as install the OBS built .deb.

I am using jaffa's "mud2" perl script for converting the QtCreator project into something suitable for the OBS.

A summary of my changes:

in the .pro file:

contains(QT_CONFIG, maemo5): message(Maemo5)
contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan): message(Maemo6)
linux-g++-maemo:!contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan): {
MEEGO_VERSION_MAJOR = 1
MEEGO_VERSION_MINOR = 2
MEEGO_VERSION_PATCH = 0
MEEGO_EDITION = harmattan
DEFINES += MEEGO_EDITION_HARMATTAN
message(Maemo6-beta)
}

...

desktopfile.files = $${TARGET}_harmattan.desktop
desktopfile.path = /usr/share/applications
INSTALLS += desktopfile