Hi. I've asked this a couple of times on IRC, but I haven't found a fully satisfying answer. I want to see SailfishOS as any other OS/platform is featured in Qt: by having some qmake support to detect wheter I'm compiling for SailfishOS or not.
Once that is done, having a Q_OS_SAILFISH preprocessor macro that can also choose different paths in C++ and adding support in QFileSelector is trivial. The big question is: do you want such thing in Qt? If yes, I would gladly do it myself, since I have some time available and I'm looking for ways to contribute to Qt, learn, etc. Rationale: Right now everyone is baking its own way, with varying degrees of success. ;-) I looked at it a year ago when I started writing my Sailfish application, and I was pointed to puzzle-master's sources, where a simple packagesExist(sailfishapp) did the trick... or so I thought. Since I wasn't testing the non-Sailfish branch much, I didn't realize Creator always returns true on this condition (by design: not allowed to fork a process when parsing .pro files). Seems a petty complaint (who cares about Creator that much? it works for qmake just fine), but with harbour requiring a "harbour-" prefix in the name of the executable, Creator might not even be able to start the application because it doesn't find it if you use a different value for TARGET. Lately I've been finding time for the app again and I finally noticed the problem, so I asked on IRC again. I was pointed at other application, and the check used was even worse. :-) Then I searched a bit in the branch of the mer-qt/qtbase repo. I see you don't use any mkspec for SailfishOS or Jolla, right? That's where I thought you might have it, and where I think it could be. Blackberry sets there the QMAKE_PLATFORM and Q_OS_BLACKBERRY. Yes, yes. I know there is a solution: pass a parameter to the qmake invocation. Store the invocation flag on the RPM packaging for final deployment, and maybe a .pro.shared file for development. That's what Puzzle Master has now too. Still I think there is some value in having this sorted out in a more general way, specially given that you'll want people to also distinguish a build for the Jolla phone or the Jolla tablet. Cheers. -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org