[maemo-developers] New to N900 and Qt, what's the best place to start?

[From: koos vriezen]

2010/1/22 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+maemo at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm beginning to learn Qt using the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt
> 4 (2nd Edition)", along with Qt online documentation and Google (of
> course), and I'm also a recent owner of a N900. I use Gentoo Linux &
> KDE4 on my PC and have no problem creating Qt programs to run on my PC
> environment. I'd like to start making some for my N900 as well. For
> now I'll just try to make "hello world". :)
>
> What's the recommended dev environment to produce Qt-based software
> for the N900/Maemo5? SDK Virtual Machine? MADDE? Is qt-creator going
> to be able to cross-compile to maemo target in my native Linux PC
> environment in the near future? Can I develop in qt-creator and then
> compile in the other environment? Since I'm just starting from scratch
> I'm open to any suggestions...  I realize from googling that debugging
> in N900 might not be so easy right now and hopefully more IDE-based
> support is coming.
>
> I appreciate any advice on where to begin my journey, thanks!

Some of these questions are answered here
http://wiki.maemo.org/Qt4_Hildon#Using_Qt_4.6_Betas_in_Fremantle

Br.
Koos