How to build Qt5 for Android?

Question

I have a server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I would like to put the server to use building Qt5 for the Android ARMv6 platform. How does one go about doing this on a headle

Answer 1

I don't mean to respond to another answer with an answer but this is my first post :-( and I think that that prevents me from posting this in a comment. (so consider it a citation of said answer, not a reply to it) Nathan's own answer above didn't work exactly for me.

My configure line looked more like so:

./configure \
-developer-build -platform linux-g++-64 \
-xplatform android-g++ \
-nomake tests \
-nomake examples \
-android-ndk /opt/qt5-android/android-ndk-r8e \
-android-sdk /opt/qt5-android/android-sdk-linux \
-skip qttools \
-skip qttranslations \
-skip qtwebkit \
-skip qtserialport \
-android-ndk-host linux-x86_64

Here's why:

• -skip qtwebkit-examples-and-demos caused an error in configure... It didn't like that I was skipping something that couldn't be built anyway (sorry, I lost the exact error message)

• -android-ndk-host linux-x86_64 stopped configure from aborting with " Can not detect the android host. Please use -android-ndk-host option to specify one"

• -platform linux-g++-64 is me being paranoid about whether or not configure will add the -m64 flag or whatever when working its magic for me

Other than this difference, Nathan's procedure seemed to work like a charm. My local environment building now (thanks for the tips, Mr Osman :-)