Questions on versions and branches
Tom Russo
played around with it. I hope to port some of my Qt-for-desktop
programs over to android, but they all use some external libraries and
it seems that support for external libraries isn't quite right until
"Alpha 3," at least as far as I understand from browsing some tickets
(e.g. http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/tickets/57/ and
http://http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/tickets/73/) and searching
this list.
Thing is, I can only find references to Alpha 3 here on this list,
although it seems that folks are able to get hold of it somehow. I
see no references to it on the wiki or in the files download area,
which are labeled 0.2.1
In fact, I'm not even using the binary installer anymore, and have
started building necessitas from source anyway, so I assume that
there's a way to get the pre-released Alpha 3 out of the gitorious
repository. Bu I see is a stable and unstable branch, along with
several other branches like "testing", with stable not changed since
June (Alpha 2) and unstable getting daily updates (bravo for you
developers, by the way). If I were to want to take the plunge and try
Alpha 3, should I just build unstable? Or is the alpha 3 release
tucked away on one of the other branches?
Or is Alpha 3 as imminent as its sounding from the localization thread
on this list? If so, I could just wait a few days and do a git pull
and a rebuild.
mingw android
It is imminent yeah, but if you want to build from source, its likely all committed already. You should also build the ndk though, as our ndk is more up to date than googles.
Tom Russo
It is imminent yeah, but if you want to build from source, its likely all committed already. You should also build the ndk though, as our ndk is more up to date than googles.
Ok. Building the NDK from source is a new level of hardcore I've not tried yet, so perhaps I'll wait. Then again, I might get a wild hair and try it. I've been using NDK r6b from August. What version is Necessitas using, and where can I find the NDK sources these days? Is the kernel.org repository back up?
But if I do try to build the recent code, the question remains "what branch?" Unstable?
I just did a "git remote show origin" and see several new branches including "Alpha 4" but no "Alpha 3."
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Tom Russo
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:05, mingw android <mingw....@gmail.com> wrote:It is imminent yeah, but if you want to build from source, its likely all committed already. You should also build the ndk though, as our ndk is more up to date than googles.
Ok. Building the NDK from source is a new level of hardcore I've not tried yet, so perhaps I'll wait. Then again, I might get a wild hair and try it. I've been using NDK r6b from August. What version is Necessitas using, and where can I find the NDK sources these days? Is the kernel.org repository back up?
But if I do try to build the recent code, the question remains "what branch?" Unstable?
I just did a "git remote show origin" and see several new branches including "Alpha 4" but no "Alpha 3."
Heh. Just needed to wait a few *minutes* for the release. I guess I'll just download the binary for Alpha 3 right now.
mingw android
You've downloaded ministro I guess? To build the ndk, use build_linaro_ndk.sh in the Necessitas_SDK folder.
As for the version, its a hybrid of lots of different bits, but ndk wise (i.e wrt the build scripts) its r6b. Ive compiled linaro gcc 4.6.2 also but currently use 4.4.3.
The kernel.org repos came back online recently, but in the meantime I switched to another set of repos from linaro.