Jolla Go 1.4.2 / 1.5 / 1.6 / 1.7 runtime setup for MerSDK

GO-QML bindings have been updated with https://github.com/SjB/qml/tree/go1.6-port to fix panic issues (Go pointers into c land are not allowed from go1.6 onwards and SjB kindly fixed this issue!).

Quick installation instructions for vanilla MerSDK VM

• Log into MerSDK VM as mersdk (ssh [email protected]) (you should add your public/private ssh key to your setup)
  • On Jolla's vanilla sdk you may want to do ssh -i SailfishOS/vmshare/ssh/private_keys/engine/mersdk [email protected] -p 2222
• Clone repository into home by executing git clone https://github.com/nekrondev/jolla_go.git ~/tmp
• Copy content of ~/tmp/ into your home folder mv ~/tmp/* ~/
• Make sure that setup script is executable chmod +x ./mersdk_jolla_go.sh
• Make sure that update script for Go 1.5 is executable chmod +x ./mersdk_jolla_go15_upgrade.sh
• Launch setup script ./mersdk_jolla_go.sh
• Optional: If you want to upgrade from Go runtime 1.4 to Go runtime 1.5 execute ./mersdk_jolla_go15_upgrade.sh
• Or Optional: If you want to upgrade from Go runtime 1.4 to Go runtime 1.6 execute ./mersdk_jolla_go16_upgrade.sh
• Or Optional: If you want to upgrade from Go runtime 1.4 to Go runtime 1.7 execute ./mersdk_jolla_go17_upgrade.sh

After script has launched it will take some time to build the Jolla Go runtime on MerSDK.

As a bonus I included the world famous dewpoint calculator source. You can compile it by doing the following steps after Golang runtime has been created:

• cd ~/src/dewpointcalc
• mb2 build (will build the i486 RPM for EMU)
• mb2 -t SailfishOS-armv7hl build (will build the ARM RPM for Jolla)
• ./deploy (Deploy to Emu, you must have Jolla Emu started to do this)

More infos and discussion can be found at https://together.jolla.com/question/105098/how-to-setup-go-142-runtime-and-go-qml-pkg-for-mersdk/

Installation and compilation will take approx. 30 - 60 mins depending on your hardware.