Tutorial for Linux (Connect IQ 3.2.3)

Can someone help me with setting up connect iq sdk + eclipse? Eclipse is not necessary, terminal scripts are fine as well as I don't need a lot of them and the eclipse plugin is very basic anyways.

It looks like the process is like following:

check https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/sdk/ and find out there is no SDK for linux... at least not if I open this page from within linux
find out that there exists a json file here https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/sdks/sdks.json
get the sdk name from this json and use it in this link: https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/sdks/<DESIRED-SDK-NAME>.zip
finally download the sdk
extract it and find out there is no SDK Manager in it? only era, fit-graph and monkeybrain (last one does not start at all)

Additionally I did the eclipse SDK setup like described here: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/sdk/

The first problem that comes up is that I can't start a SDK manager as I can't find one... Can someone help here?

PS:

I also found this link that contains the sdk manager https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/sdk-manager/connectiq-sdk-manager-linux.zip but this one does not start at all...

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7030070 over 3 years ago

It seems, that the SDK manager is not supported for Linux right now. Travis.ConnectIQ could you provide any update if it's true or not?

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to 7030070

I think it depends on which linux and which version. The SDK Manager is a GUI app, so it also needs to run in a GUI.

7030070 over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I don't think so. The sdkmanager file in a bin folder (from developer.garmin downloads) has an unknown type (application/x-sharedlib). There is no way to open it on any Linux.

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to 7030070

People have run it on Linux (check the discussion threads), but it depends on which linux. There are many different flavors.

Michael over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Jim, this is true for sure, but they always had problems and this information is old imho... All the threads about linux seems to belong to the SDK before it added the SDK manager...

I really wonder why the SDK exists for linux if there is no small official set up guide for it - my impression is that it does not work on linux currently because of the SDK manager.

Personally, I just stick with windows for now.

Hendrik over 3 years ago in reply to Michael

I am able to run it on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS.
Was using connectiq-sdk-lin-3.1.9-2020-06-24 and had the following problem when starting the sdk manager
error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0

To solve it:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this entry to the file and save:
deb cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

7030070 over 3 years ago in reply to Hendrik

May I ask you to share how you was able to run it on Ubuntu? I'm using Mint (which is Ubuntu fork basically) and I'm unable to do anything with sdkmanager.

Upd: Oh, you're using 3.19, not 3.20. So there is no way to run those new 3.20 sdk manager on Linux.

Hendrik over 3 years ago in reply to 7030070

Sorry, I was wrong. It was not connectiq-sdk-lin-3.1.9-2020-06-24 that I used. I downloaded a zip file connectiq-sdk-manager-linux.zip from a link that I found in some thread in this forum. Not sure which version that is.

Michael over 3 years ago in reply to Hendrik

Link is here: https://developer.garmin.com/downloads/connect-iq/sdk-manager/connectiq-sdk-manager-linux.zip

I tried this file as well but could not get it running...

Hendrik over 3 years ago in reply to Michael

When you say you can not get it running, what exactly happens? Do you get any error messages?