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S60 - Introduction to using Qt

• Required tools
• Installing Qt and running demos
• Building your own applications
• Installing your own applications

Required tools

See Qt for S60 Requirements to see what tools are required to use Qt for S60.

Installing Qt and running demos

Follow the instructions found in Installing Qt on S60 using binary package to learn how to install Qt using binary package and how to build and run Qt demos.

Follow the instructions found in Installing Qt on S60 to learn how to install Qt using using source package and how to build and run the Qt demos.

Building your own applications

If you are new to Qt development, have a look at How to Learn Qt. In general, the difference between developing a Qt application on S60 compared to any of the other platforms supported by Qt is not that big.

Once you have crated a .pro file for your project, generate the Carbide specific Bld.inf and .mmp files this way:

     qmake

For more information on how to use qmake have a look at the qmake Tutorial.

Now you can build the Qt on S60 application with standard build tools. By default, running make will produce binaries for the emulator. However, S60 comes with several alternative build targets, as shown in the table below:

The following lines perform a debug build for the emulator and deploy all the needed files:

     make debug-winscw

To work on your project in Carbide, simply import the .pro file by right clicking on the project explorer and executing "Import...".

Installing your own applications

To install your own applications on hardware, Qt comes with a tool called createpackage. When used on the .pkg files created by qmake, it will produce a signed .sis file that can be installed to the device. For example:

     createpackage wiggly_gcce_udeb.pkg

If you want to install the program immediately, make sure that the device is connected to the computer in "PC Suite" mode, and run createpackage with the -i switch, like this:

     createpackage -i wiggly_gcce_udeb.pkg