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Building Symbian Projects with QtSDK

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All new Symbian SDKs are now distributed inside the new QtSDK, so that should be my primary build environment. The new QtSDK also includes an updated version of GCCE (4.x), and new sbsv2 build, which is a lot better than the old symbian abld-build. With this tutorial you can still build your old symbian projects from mmp-files.

Configuring the new sbsv2 build to the QtSDK

Here’s an example of my setEnv.bat. In this case the QtSDK was installed into c-drive

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SET PATH=C:\QtSDK\Symbian\tools\sbs\bin;C:\QtSDK\Symbian\tools\perl\bin;C:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\epoc32\gcc\bin;C:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\epoc32\tools;%PATH%
SET EPOCROOT=\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\
SET SBS_MINGW=C:\QtSDK\Symbian\tools\sbs\win32\mingw
SET SBS_HOME=C:\QtSDK\Symbian\tools\sbs
SET SBS_GCCE441BIN=C:\QtSDK\Symbian\tools\gcce4\bin
call C:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\bin\qtenvS3.bat

Modifying bld.inf

The sbsv2 does not understand PRJ_PLATFORMS lists, so you’ll have to remove those. I left only PRJ_MMPFILES definitions in the bld.inf files.

Building with sbsv2

Here’s a list of couple of useful sbsv2 build command

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sbs -c armv5_udeb_gcce                       - debug build with GCCE
sbs reallyclean                              - cleans everthing
sbs clean

Building with qmake

To build with qmake from command line you’ll only need to run the qtenvs3.bat located at QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\bin
Here’s a list of couple useful build commands:

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qmake -spec symbian-sbsv2                      - uses sbsv2
make debug-gcce                                - makes debug with GCCE
make distclean                                 - cleans everthing

Configuring the old abld-build to the QtSDK

I don’t know why anyone would still like to use the old abld-build, but it still seems to be working with the new QtSDKs too.

  1. First add a new device for the QtSDK, and set it into default
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devices -add C:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473 C:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473
@Symbian3_Qt473:com.nokia.Symbian3_QtSDK473]
  1. Then set the new device as default
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    devices -setdefault @Symbian3_Qt473:com.nokia.Symbian3_QtSDK473
  2. Set the new EPCOROOT
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    set EPOCROOT=\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt473\
  3. build with able-build as you used to.
Qt Development, Symbian Development
mmp QtSDK Symbian
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