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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I ran into these problems when trying to set up a chroot on Utopic as well
and gave up after an hour.
There's definitely room for improvements.

2015-04-09 22:46 GMT+02:00 Riccardo Padovani <rpadovani@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi all,
> this want to be my feedback about my experience with qmake and the Ubuntu
> SDK.
> As the title could suggest, I hadn't good times: I don't know if it's
> due lack of documentation, or there is something wrong in the SDK, or
> whatever. But certainly something has to improve.
>
> For those who don't know me, I'm a long time core app developer, and
> in my free time I also developed a couple of apps. I'm saying this
> just to evidence I'm not new to Ubuntu world, and before writing this
> mail I spent a lot of times trying to figure what's wrong.
>
> Let's talk about the topic: qmake.
> I've an app (100balls[0]) which uses an external plugin (Bacon2D[1])
> and I use qmake to have all working together.
>
> Since the game is stable enough, I don't do more than one release per
> month, and every time I try to do a release I've to spend 2/3 days to
> create a click package because chroot doesn't work.
>
> Last time I did a release (last week of Feb, IIRC) I was on vivid (and
> I'm still on it) and I used a 15.04 chroot. To have chroot working I
> had to add the sdk ppa (seriously, I need a PPA on an unstable
> version?).
>
> This time the *same* chroot doesn't work anymore. It creates the click
> package without any error, but then the app doesn't start on the phone
> because it doesn't find the Bacon2D module.
>
> When I do "Maintain" on the chroot and try to launch QMake I've this error:
>
>  (click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf)root@artemis:/home/rpadovani# qmake
> qmake: could not find a Qt installation of ''
>
> I also tried with a new chroot, but I've the same issue.
>
> I don't know if it's a problem of mine, an sdk problem, a lack of
> documentation or whatever.
> But it's annoying to have to spend more time trying to have a working
> chroot than writing code.
>
> Regards,
> R.
>
>
> [0]:https://github.com/rpadovani/100balls
> [1]:https://github.com/Bacon2D/Bacon2D
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