Qt for Symbian

Chapter 2. Getting Started

Morten V. Pedersen, Janus Heide, Frank H.P. Fitzek and Tony Torp

This chapter gives an overview of the tools used for Qt development for the Symbian platform. The early sections will serve as an entry point for developers who are new to the Symbian platform by providing a step-by-step introduction and installation guide to the tools needed. The sections following will go through the process of creating and running a 'Hello World' application using Qt for Symbian both in the emulator and on a mobile phone. If you already have a working Symbian development environment and are familiar with the tools and application build process, it is recommended that you scan through the first part of the chapter as some SDK versions require patching or similar, before proceeding to Section 2.1.7 which focuses on the installation and introduction of the Qt for Symbian SDK. Note that throughout the chapter some long download links have been shortened using a URL shortener service. If a shortened link does not work, a table containing the original links can be found at the end of the chapter.

Installing the Development Environment

Figure 2.1 shows an overview of the components that comprise a typical Qt for Symbian development environment.

As indicated in the figure, the only currently supported development platform is Windows and it is recommended that users run either Windows XP or Windows Vista. This restriction is due to the fact that some tools in the Symbian platform SDK ...