Nokia Qt SDK released

kamalakshantv · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 07:40

Nokia Qt SDK and Ovi acceptance a good start for Qt on mobile

"Read (http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/06/23/nokia-qt-sdk-and-ovi-acceptance-a-good-start-for-qt-on-mobile/)":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/06/23/nokia-qt-sdk-and-ovi-acceptance-a-good-start-for-qt-on-mobile/more here.

kamalakshantv · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 07:43

Some other key announcements that will be important for developers:

Availability of the Nokia Qt Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0
Individuals can now register as Ovi Publishers
Public beta of Nokia signing Symbian apps for free
Availability of Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian
Ovi Store intake for Qt apps

luca · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 16:36

What is the difference between the sdk I can download from:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/e920da1a-5b18-42df-82c3-907413e525fb/Nokia_Qt_SDK.html

http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

I haven't downloaded yet but linux 32 bit version have different dimension:

557 MB

371 MB

mkfnx · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 18:15

@Luca

The SDK hosted at Qt home page (http://qt.nokia.com) only includes the "basic" stuff for Qt development for typical platforms like Desktop and Embedded, it includes: Development libraries of the "classic" "Qt Modules(Qt Modules)":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/modules.html and tools like Qt Creator.

The SDK hosted at Forum Nokia is focused on the development for mobile devices, for this reason it includes extra stuff, needed for develop on this platforms, like: phone simulators, development libraries for mobile devices (Qt Mobility API's) and Symbian and Maemo compilation and debugging tools.

It's provided like different donwloads because Qt is new for mobile development, but not for the other platforms, then many Qt users aren't focused on mobile devices so they don't need all the extra stuff of the new Nokia Qt SDK.

mgran · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 20:38

Hi Luca, here is a comparison table:

"http://qt.nokia.com/products/qt-for-mobile-platforms#qtfornokia":http://qt.nokia.com/products/qt-for-mobile-platforms#qtfornokia

luca · wrote on 24 Jun 2010, 21:38

Ok, thanks a lot.
Now it's more clear, I didn't see the different name of both SDK:

QT SDK

Nokia QT SDK

Thanks again.

andre · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 07:17

I do notice the difference in naming, but to say that it is clear? No. Not really.

Since Qt is Nokia owned anyway, adding Nokia to the name is not a very clear distinction. For clarity, I would have prefered something along the lines of "Qt Mobility SDK" or "Qt for Mobile Platforms" as it is called on the page referenced above. IMHO, that is much clearer than just adding a "Nokia" in front of the name.

kamalakshantv · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 08:17

-Well its not for Mobile development only. In fact its a superset of Qt SDK-. You can develop for Symbian, Maemo -and Windows desktop-.

kamalakshantv · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 08:19

But yes I do agree that naming is confusing for someone not aware of it.

andre · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 08:31

[quote author="QtK" date="1277453875"]Well its not for Mobile development only. In fact its a superset of Qt SDK. You can develop for Symbian, Maemo and Windows desktop.[/quote]

According to the "link(Comparison table of Nokia Qt SDK and Qt SDK)":http://qt.nokia.com/products/qt-for-mobile-platforms#qtfornokia posted above, that is not the case actually. There is it stated that with the Nokia version, you can not develop for the desktop while you can not develop for the mobile platforms with the desktop version (with the possible future exception of Meego). Is that page incorrect or out-dated then?

kamalakshantv · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 08:51

[quote author="Andre" date="1277454707"][quote author="QtK" date="1277453875"]Well its not for Mobile development only. In fact its a superset of Qt SDK. You can develop for Symbian, Maemo and Windows desktop.[/quote]

According to the "link(Comparison table of Nokia Qt SDK and Qt SDK)":http://qt.nokia.com/products/qt-for-mobile-platforms#qtfornokia posted above, that is not the case actually. There is it stated that with the Nokia version, you can not develop for the desktop while you can not develop for the mobile platforms with the desktop version (with the possible future exception of Meego). Is that page incorrect or out-dated then?[/quote]

Thank you for correcting me. I had some misunderstanding, I was wrong and the information on that page is correct. I just checked the options provided in Qt Creator that came with Nokia Qt SDK and it doesn't show option for Desktop Development.

luca · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 15:08

I installed Nokia QT SDK for linux but I get this error while executing qtcreator:
@luca@slack131:~/NokiaQtSDK/QtCreator/bin$ ./qtcreator
Failed to load core: /home/luca/NokiaQtSDK/QtCreator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/Nokia/libCore.so: Cannot load library /home/luca/NokiaQtSDK/QtCreator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/Nokia/libCore.so: (/home/luca/NokiaQtSDK/QtCreator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/Nokia/../../libUtils.so.1: file too short)
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kamalakshantv · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 15:25

Never tried it on Linux yet. But note that you cannot develop applications for Symbian Platform using Nokia Qt SDK linux version.

luca · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 18:54

[quote author="QtK" date="1277479535"]Never tried it on Linux yet. But note that you cannot develop applications for Symbian Platform using Nokia Qt SDK linux version.[/quote]

This is a big limitation...

I hope to have soon a complete linux sdk version.