Just laid my hands on a used Zaurus SL5500. I was wondering how stable the Zaurus cross compiler and QT wrapper were? I realise this is slightly off topic, but I remember the developer working on the bindings posted to this list a while back.

Any info?

TTFN,

Matt

Matt Emson wrote

Just laid my hands on a used Zaurus SL5500. I was wondering how stable the Zaurus cross compiler and QT wrapper were?

Should be very usable.

http://users.pandora.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/qtedemo.html

Florian Klaempfl wrote

> I realise this is slightly off > topic, but I remember the developer working on the bindings posted to this > list a while back. >

The fpc qte binding demo program shows that it is usable. If however you have problems and think it is binding or fpc related, I am always willing to investigate this.
I just did so for someone who had a problem with QLCDNumber, it probably is a small fpc bug concerning passing a double parameter.

If you use something else than Mandrake, it would be nice if you could adapt my installation instructions to match your experience on your distro. I will add then update my webpage and the fpc wiki (they need an update anyhow)

http://users.pandora.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/qtedemo.html http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Setup_Cross_Compile_For_ARM

kind regards,

Den Jean

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Jonas

Excellent. I do have a Mandrake 8.1 and Mandrake 9.0 install CD hanging about. Are either of those preferable? I would also like to get it going under Windows.. just because I know I'll be in Windows for more frequently. Was there a specific reason for using LINUX, bar the obvious QTE runs on Zaurus, Zaurus uses LINUX thing?

Matt

I do not program in windows anymore, so I did not try to have a windows version of the qt embedded binding. It was already enough work in itself. You are ofcourse free to make one :-)

The binding is made in C/C++, one of the makefiles is 2730 lines. So it helped me remember why I prefer to code in pascal. Compiling the binding was a nightmare, because of the incompatibilities between the c-compilers. You need the exact same compiler as the one the qt/embedded library was created with. And it is impossible to just take the source of that compiler and compile it with a recent compiler, the compiler source is not compatible anymore. So you need to cycle back several times.

Mandrake: You can always download a fresher iso. It is worth it. Kylix works fine till and including version 10.1 (so not 2005 or 10.2, but that is off list)

kind regards,

Den Jean

Den,
Could you point me to some reading/starting point on how to make those bindings ?
Swig doesn't support pascal yet.
I have a fresh QT4 bindings for pascal in mind.
Thanks

There are several ways:

kalyptus: see cvs/fpc/utils/kalyptus
google on kde bindings / qt bindings
Florian started from the c-kalyptus one.
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/list_archives/lazarus/08-17-02_01-02-04/msg04138.html

smoke: more for scripting languages

smoke/refract: c++ headers to xml using the gcc parsing capability. C++ may look to be the perfect parser for c++,
but qt is not c++ but an enhanced delphi like language (hence why the moc) so distance to qt language is big.
http://wiki.dotgnu.info/Smoke/Refract

freeclx: based on moc parsing. Moc converts qt language to c++. So Moc is close to the qt language and it gives you a very able parser. With some modifications to the lex/yacc you can let moc produce a pascal qt binding.

But each time trolltech adds to the qt language, they renew the moc, then you need to port your adaptations to the moc lex/yacc again.

We adapted the qt part of freeclx from qt 2.2.4 to qt 2.3.2 and qt/embedded The result is on http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/qtforfpc/qt2/FreeClx/

qtc binding: as pascal can easily use c-libraries, the qtc binding seems a good base but difficult to maintain at each update of the qtc binding. Andreas Hausladen is very productive in this matter. (allready qt3 binding), I guess qt4 is in the make. Perhaps you can join forces with him. http://andy.jgknet.de/oss/qt/qt3forFPC/
http://andy.jgknet.de/oss/kylix/wiki/index.php/Qt3_for_Kylix

kind regards,

Den Jean

Thank you Den.

I'll do some homework and keep you posted of my findings and progress. Don't expect much progress in the next 3 weeks, I'm on holiday :)

Regards,
Alain