Qt for UEFI platforms?

[neuehier]

Is there any Qt version for UEFI?

[goetz]

What do you want to achieve? I don't understand yet, how Qt would be involved in the process of booting a computer.

[neuehier]

Just looking for a graphic framework for a preboot application

[goetz]

Qt depends on an already booted device, so I would say it's hardly suited for the pre-boot process. So in that context, no there's no Qt for UEFI.

[neuehier]

In UEFI context you have booted devices, you can acces the graphic card and draw something...
I think it could be posible to have some light Qt version there, just like this versions that run in some RealTime or embbeded systems, was wondering if someone is working on this.

[goetz]

I wouldn't say it's completely impossible. But to my knowledge, no one is working on that. You might get some more elaborate answer on the #qt-labs channel on freenode IRC.

[Liang Qi]

https://firmwaresecurity.com/2017/11/25/qtbase-efidroid-port-of-qt-to-uefi/
https://github.com/efidroid/qtbase

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@neuehier, although not 1:1, wxWidgets is usable for EFI GUIs (I've a LINX 1010 with one), and it can delegate to wxQt when required. I can't imagine a situation in which you'd run the preboot application outside of a preboot environment, though, so, in practice, it wouldn't delegate to it frequently. If you needed the application to be versatile enough to be able to operate in both environments, though, it'd work.