Qt5Blogger

It's been some time since my last post, today I'm posting again about the state of the Qt-framework on Windows Phone. Remember, Digia and the qt-project are currently working to port their famous C++ framework Qt to WinRT (= Windows Runtime). This port includes to targetting Windows 8 Apps on desktop machines and tablet (including Windows RT on ARM cpus) AND Windows Phone 8. In december 2013, Digia presented a technology preview of the WinRT port [1]. During this time, only a few parts of the qtbase module worked. But on 27th feburary 2014, they released the Alpha of Qt5.3, with a testable version of the Qml/Quick modules on WinRT. At the same time, they released QtCreator 3.1 Beta, with an experimental version of a QtCreator-WinRT-plugin, which imply: you can develop apps for Windows Phone 8 with QtCreator. So I decided to give it another try! First, I downloaded the Alpha sources on qt-project.org, but: don't do this! There are to many changes during that release, on...

Today, I'm going to blog something about Qt5 on Windows Phone 8. Last week, Digia released a Technology Preview for the WinRT libraries [1]. The WinRT (= Windows Runtime) is the base library for developing Windows 8 (also including WindowsRT on ARM) and Windows Phone 8 apps. So, I wanted to try it out for my Nokia Lumia 820. BUILD Before you can compile the sources, you have to install the Windows Phone SDK!!! First, you're starting with downloading the sources and extract them [2]. Then start configuring the build with: > configure -xplatform winphone-arm-msvc2012 -debug After this process, you cann run > nmake > nmake install Congratulation! You've compiled Qt5 Technology Preview for Windows Phone 8. You see how easy it is to build it. But you have to be aware, that not every part of the qtbase module is implemented. E.g. the Qt5Network module. But now, the hard part is starting: you want to compile a Qt application. I've started with compilin...