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[Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The docviewer-app was one of the first ever created, before we had
templates in QtC and well before we had cross-compiling working. I
expect that most of the problems are a result of it's age, and a new
project created today wouldn't have them.

Michael Hall
mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx

On 09/11/2014 08:34 AM, Pat McGowan wrote:
> The tools are designed to run well on Trusty and use chroots for
> building and for obtaining the latest UITK component information, and
> then the emulator for testing and debugging.
> 
> There should be no need for other approaches. If something is not
> working or not clear I would want to hear more
> 
> Thanks
> Pat
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan
> <krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>         In general I'd say use Utopic, however I believe Nekhelesh has done
>         some interesting work getting qtcreator running under utopic in
>         an LXC
>         container recently (i.e. today) on top of trusty. I'm hoping he'll
>         blog about this interesting development as I can see others
>         liking the
>         idea of developing in a fast and lightweight virtual environment on
>         top of a stable LTS release.
> 
> 
>     I am just getting started with trying to run this in LXC. I still
>     need to figure out stuff like creating device kits, detecting usb
>     devices in a LXC container. Until now I have been using Trusty and
>     testing my applications in the emulator or the phone (by using
>     device kits). This is quite fast and has improved a ton in the past
>     few months. This should already cover most of your use-cases.
>     However if you want to run Autopilot or QML Tests, then you will
>     need a utopic vm or desktop since I haven't found a reliable way [1]
>     to run qml tests on the device. While with Autopilot, you will want
>     to use autopilot vis to debug which cannot be done on the emulator
>     and device afaik.
> 
>     Since you have trusty installed, I say give the emulator a shot. You
>     can find the required documentation on setting up and running apps
>     on the emulator at [2].
> 
>     If you have any issues getting the emulator setup, let us know.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Nekhelesh
> 
>     [1]
>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/515153/how-does-one-run-qml-tests-on-a-ubuntu-touch-phone
>     [2]
>     http://developer.ubuntu.com/apps/sdk/tutorials/running-apps-from-the-sdk/
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