stanislavmaksimov / sdk-build-tools

Set of scripts and application req. lists that are needed to build the SailfishOS SDK.

SDK Build Scripts

Overview

The scripts in this project are used to build Sailfish SDK in its production environment. They have some assumptions about the host environment, but may offer command line options for changing the default values. The scripts can act as a starting point for adapting them for personal use if so desired.

Building Qt is only necessary once and whenever patches are applied, otherwise they can be left in the built state and utilized in subsequent Qt Creator builds.

Static Qt build is required for Installer Framework, dynamic Qt build is required for Qt Creator and other tools coming with the SDK.

Scripts

Most of the scripts offer a --help option.

• buildqt5.sh - builds Qt
• buildqtc.sh - builds Qt Creator and cross-gdb for i486 and armv7hl architectures
• buildicu.sh - builds the ICU library for Linux and Windows (required for Webkit)
• buildifw.sh - builds the Qt Installer Framework binaries
• buildmaster.sh - start one or more build tasks in a build host

The other scripts are various helper scripts mostly to package files into a format suitable for the Installer FW.

Build hosts

The SDK builds are made in the following host environments:

• Mac: OS X 10.10
• Linux: Ubuntu 16.04 32/64 bit
• Windows: Windows 7 32 bit

These are also the oldest host operating system versions the SDK is supported in.

Qt versions required for build

• Qt5 from http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.6/5.6.2/single/
• Qt Installer FW from https://github.com/sailfishos/qt-installer-framework branch master

ICU version

ICU library is required for building Webkit in Linux and in Windows.

For Linux build from sources using the buildicu.sh script:

• http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.2.1/icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz

For Windows use a pre-built package:

• http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.8.1.1/icu4c-4_8_1_1-Win32-msvc10.zip

Linux

The following additional packages are required in Ubuntu 16.04

• build-essential p7zip-full git libgtk2.0-dev chrpath libncurses5-dev libdbus-1-dev ruby libgl1-mesa-dev "^libxcb.*" libx11-xcb-dev libxrender-dev libxi-dev flex bison gperf patchelf

Mac

The following additional software is required in the build Mac:

• Xcode 6 or 7, available on the Mac App Store
• p7zip and wget installed via MacPorts

The build Mac should be prepared for command line development. To make sure this is the case, please refer to Technical Note TN2339 "Building from the Command Line with Xcode FAQ", available in the Apple Mac Developer Library.

By default, the build scripts use Qt 5.6.2. To build a different version of Qt, set the DEF_QT_VER variable in the defaults.sh script to another version, e.g.:

DEF_QT_VER=5.8.0

When building p7zip, follow the BUILD instructions in the accompanying README file. However, to build p7zip (as of writing version 9.38.1) on OS X 10.10 with Xcode 6, the architecture-specific makefile needs to be modified to use the correct path for the command line tools. After preparing the makefile with:

$ cp makefile.macosx_llvm_64bits makefile.machine

change the compiler paths in makefile.machine from:

CXX=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-g++
CC=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc

to the paths used by Xcode 6 command line tool shims:

CXX=/usr/bin/llvm-g++
CC=/usr/bin/llvm-gcc

Windows

Windows build uses Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows Desktop and MinGW compilers in a bash shell provided by a combination of msysgit and MinGW environments. Also 7-Zip is required on the command line.

Other build requirements include perl, python and ruby and they are documented here.

pkg-config and its dependencies (check buildqtc.sh) can be downloaded from locations mentioned here.