Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012 01.40.00, Holger Hans Peter Freyther > In fact in Yocto/Poky we are using a custom mkspec that allows us to target > 7 different CPU architectures. I would be very happy if Qt would use > autoconf (and pkg-config) for the configuration step on Unix/Posix (it >

Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-22 Thread Holger Hans Peter Freyther
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:22:29AM -0700, Romain Pokrzywka wrote: > On Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:51:05 AM Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCmmel?= wrote: Hi, adding my two cents here as well. There is and should be nothing special about cross-compiling. With sane systems the only difference between nativ

Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-20 Thread Romain Pokrzywka
On Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:51:05 AM Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCmmel?= wrote: > Here a proposal: > 1. -target-mkspec : specify mkspec name > 2. -target : specify toolchain prefix -toolchain-prefix sounds much more appropriate than -target (which to me means the target hardware platfo

Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-19 Thread Loaden
I prefer use qbs instead of qmake. qbs is a great build suite. 2012/8/19 Peter Kümmel > Qt could be compiled native or cross for a system > different to the system on which Qt is build. > > But this is not how mkspecs/ is organized: > > linux-*native > win32-*native > wince*

Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-19 Thread Peter Kümmel
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:00:25 +0200 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > I'd actually prefer that you clean this up *after* we switch buildsystems, Ahhh! :) > whenever that happens. Cleaning up configure is an unnecessary task if we're > going to throw it away soon after. > > Please keep changes to the

Re: [Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-19 Thread Thiago Macieira
On domingo, 19 de agosto de 2012 11.51.05, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Therefore I propose to cleanup this before the 5.0 release. Sorry, I oppose this. You can clean it up, but not before the 5.0 release. I'd actually prefer that you clean this up *after* we switch buildsystems, whenever that happens

[Development] Cross compiling Qt 5

2012-08-19 Thread Peter Kümmel
Qt could be compiled native or cross for a system different to the system on which Qt is build. But this is not how mkspecs/ is organized: linux-*native win32-*native wince* cross unsupported/* cross and native device/* cross also configure supports different opti