While we did a quick toutorial on how you caould build your first Meego App in Qt, here we have MADDE (Maemo Application Development and Debugging Environment) which allows us to compile Qt based applications for Nokia N900 or any Maemo 5 device from within Windows without going through Linux VM. MADDE team is working to enable same for Mac OSX and other flavors of Linux. Find out more at  http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE

Here’s how to make your first Qt App:

• Download and installed Qt for Windows SDK from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
• Next,  install the latest build of MADDE from http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/MADDE.php
• Finally follow this simple guide http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE/QtCreator_integration_for_windows
  • Installed latest build of Qt Creator 1.3.81 in separate folder from the snapshots link in guide
  • Connect PC Connectivity tool to connect your Nokia N900 via USB cable.
  • Configures the connectivity as described in guide.

Nokia’s push for Qt on MeeGo (or Maemo) and symbian now making a lot of sense. And after some initial experiemnts Faisal think it’s the right direction, where developers will not have to learn new programing language for each platform, but just select the target platform to compile for. And best of all, the application is compiled natively, so no major performance drop and sandbox issues.With Qt on symbian and MeeGo, there’s now even bigger opportunity for mobile developers to target greater audience with less development efforts.