Just noticed a new post under the “News” heading on the Foundry27 main page (about half-way down the page, first news item at the moment.) Qt has been ported to QNX! I find this amazing. Does anyone know more about it? Is it Photon native? Will apps like KDevelop or Konqueror work, or do they need KDE? Would KDE work?!?!
I find this to be an amazing development, and a major break from the past, where the Photon API was all you got. (Except for XPhoton, which then died…) Neat stuff. Of course, I do virtually no development in QNX anymore (a little maintenance for some existing customers is all) and I’m stuck back on 6.3, so I can’t even try it. If anybody does, let us know how it works out.
Nokia was given 1Billion dollars by Microsoft. In exchange Nokia is to use Windows Phone 7. Unless somebody takes QT over, it’s unlikely Nokia will continue to develop it.
It’s a GUI library. It is natively C++ although there are bindings for many other languages.
The main benefit to QNX devs and users is the number of applications that are written in Qt. It means you can port GUI applications to QNX without having to worry about X / XPhoton. Also, from a developer standpoint, using Qt over the Photon API would make a lot of sense if your code is C++.
That’s not right. Qt is free as in speech and as in beer. Originally, it was GPL, but it is now GPL or LGPL. There are also commercial licenses available, which might be the “not free” part that you saw. There are also paid support options.
Not sure what you mean? I understand some of the bigger QNX Automotive customers are using HTML5. There is also Crank Storyboard, and of course OpenGL ES.
Hi
I have QNX Momentics IDE 6.5 SP1, I wanted to compile Qt on QNX. Is it possible to cross compile Qt with Momentics resources.
Where do I find gcc path for QNX, inorder to export the PATH and cross compile the Qt. Looking for suggestions.
Yes it is possible. I don’t know how it’s done, but the earliest port I know of was Qt 4.7 which was ported by Dennis Kelly at QNX using a Linux system.