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  • SGaistS Offline
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    SGaist
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    You need to have this folder on your target computer

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      Cyrilb
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      Which directory? PWD/qtbase or /usr/local/Qt-5.1.2/lib/fonts ?
      What should it contain?

      I will also try a build with -developer-build but currently gitorious is down.

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        /usr/local/Qt-5.1.2/lib/fonts, you need it on your target computer, the one running without window manager. It must contain the font files

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          Ok, on dev platform it worked. The compiled binary is around 150MB.

          In the target at first it failed because it couldn't find libicudata.so.48 libicuuc.so.48 libicui18n.so.48 which is strange because i compiled it statically.
          Do i need any thing extra in the .pro file for static building the app ?

          After copying the requested libs in the target /usr/lib a new error appeared:
          @QXcbConnection Could not connect to display@

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            SGaist
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            #19

            You can build a static library but still have shared dependency.

            IIRC you need to tell your application which plugin you want to use

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              Ok, but why is qt still trying to use xcb, i built it for linuxfb?

              My build configuration is:
              @./configure -opensource -release -force-debug-info -confirm-license -static -qt-sql-mysql -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-openssl -no-pch -linuxfb -nomake examples -nomake tests
              @

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                #21

                Just wild guess, but it might be that linuxfb is built additionally to xcb

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                  I just finnished rebuilding a fresh copy and if put -no-xcb the compilation fails with error:
                  @g++ -Wl,-rpath-link,/qt51/qtjsbackend/lib -o ../../bin/qmlplugindump .obj/release-static/main.o .obj/release-static/qmlstreamwriter.o .obj/release-static/qmlplugindump_plugin_import.o -L/qt51/qtdeclarative/lib -lQt5Quick -L/qt51/qtbase/lib -L/qt51/qtjsbackend/lib -lQt5Qml -lQt5V8 -lQt5Network -L/qt51/qtbase/plugins/platforms -lqminimal -lQt5PlatformSupport -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lXext -lX11 -lXrender -lQt5Gui -lQt5Core -licui18n -licuuc -lm -ldl -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lrt -lGL -lpthread
                  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqxcb
                  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
                  make[3]: *** [../../bin/qmlscene] Error 1
                  make[3]: Leaving directory /qt51/qtdeclarative/tools/qmlscene' make[2]: *** [sub-qmlscene-make_first] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /qt51/qtbase/lib/libQt5Gui.a(qimage.o): In function memset':
                  /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:81: warning: memset used with constant zero length parameter; this could be due to transposed parameters
                  make[3]: Leaving directory /qt51/qtdeclarative/tools/qmlplugindump' make[2]: Leaving directory /qt51/qtdeclarative/tools'
                  make[1]: *** [sub-tools-make_first] Error 2
                  make[1]: Leaving directory `/qt51/qtdeclarative'
                  make: *** [module-qtdeclarative-make_first] Error 2
                  @

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                    SGaist
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                    Did you cleanup before rebuilding ?

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                      It was a fresh build in a new directory.

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                        Did you try with -qpa linuxfb ?

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                          #26

                          This is my configuration now:
                          @sudo ./configure -opensource -release -force-debug-info -confirm-license -static -qt-sql-mysql -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-openssl -no-pch -qpa linuxfb -no-xcb -nomake examples -nomake tests@

                          @Build options:
                          Configuration .......... accessibility alsa audio-backend avx avx2 c++11 clock-gettime

                          clock-monotonic compile_examples concurrent cups dbus evdev eventfd fontconfig

                          force_debug_info full-config getaddrinfo getifaddrs gif glib gstreamer gtk2 gtkstyle iconv

                          icu inotify ipv6ifname jpeg large-config largefile linuxfb medium-config minimal-config

                          mremap nis opengl pcre png pulseaudio qpa qpa reduce_exports reduce_relocations release rpath

                          small-config sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 static system-freetype v8 v8snapshot xlib xrender

                          zlib
                          Build parts ............ libs tools
                          Mode ................... release (with debug info)
                          Using C++11 ............ yes
                          Using PCH .............. no
                          Target compiler supports:
                          SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3 ...... yes/yes/yes
                          SSE4.1/SSE4.2 ........ yes/yes
                          AVX/AVX2 ............. yes/yes

                          Qt modules and options:
                          Qt D-Bus ............... yes (loading dbus-1 at runtime)
                          Qt Concurrent .......... yes
                          Qt GUI ................. yes
                          Qt Widgets ............. yes
                          JavaScriptCore JIT ..... yes (To be decided by JavaScriptCore)
                          QML debugging .......... yes
                          Use system proxies ..... no

                          Support enabled for:
                          Accessibility .......... yes
                          ALSA ................... yes
                          CUPS ................... yes
                          FontConfig ............. yes
                          Iconv .................. yes
                          ICU .................... yes
                          Image formats:
                          GIF .................. yes (in QtGui, using system library)
                          JPEG ................. yes (in QtGui, using bundled copy)
                          PNG .................. yes (in QtGui, using bundled copy)
                          Glib ................... yes
                          GStreamer .............. yes
                          GTK theme .............. yes
                          Large File ............. yes
                          libudev ................ no
                          Networking:
                          getaddrinfo .......... yes
                          getifaddrs ........... yes
                          IPv6 ifname .......... yes
                          OpenSSL .............. no
                          NIS .................... yes
                          OpenGL ................. desktop
                          OpenVG ................. no
                          PCRE ................... yes (bundled copy)
                          pkg-config ............. yes
                          PulseAudio ............. yes
                          QPA backends:
                          DirectFB ............. no
                          EGLFS ................ no
                          KMS .................. no
                          LinuxFB .............. yes
                          XCB .................. no
                          Session management ..... yes
                          SQL drivers:
                          DB2 .................. no
                          InterBase ............ no
                          MySQL ................ qt
                          OCI .................. no
                          ODBC ................. no
                          PostgreSQL ........... no
                          SQLite 2 ............. no
                          SQLite ............... yes (plugin, using bundled copy)
                          TDS .................. no
                          udev ................... no
                          xkbcommon .............. no
                          zlib ................... yes (bundled copy)
                          @

                          It is building now, fingers crossed.

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                            Cyrilb
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #27

                            So far so great.

                            I built twice. It failed the first time because i forgot to ommit the webkit, pfff.

                            The second time it build perfectly with the above configuration. Thanks SGaist.

                            So i quickly built a simple gui app and copied it in the target system and voila a window appeared :) .

                            But, still a but, i don't have a mouse and keyboard. And the system is stuck at this point.

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                              SGaist
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                              #28

                              Great !

                              You can also move/remove the webkit folder if you want to avoid that.

                              Are both detected on your target system ?

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                                Cyrilb
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                                #29

                                My target system is just a console system. I guess at least the keyboard should be ok because i am able to launch it.

                                How can i check if mouse is detected also?

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                                  Cyrilb
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                                  #30

                                  Update:

                                  AnalogClock example runs ok. I mean that the clock ticks.

                                  I changed my app by placing a QLineEdit and i can see the cursor in the QLineEdit blinking but i can't type nor move the mouse.

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                                    #31

                                    Update: yes mouse is detected on the target system.

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                                      SGaist
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                                      What kind of device is reported ? (/dev/mouse or... ?)

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                                        Cyrilb
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                                        #33

                                        Yes /dev/mouse2 .

                                        There is also /dev/mouse1 but it appers that the correct one is /dev/mouse2

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                                          Then you might need to setup that information before starting your application but I don't know if Qt 5 has the same set of variables / command line options as Qt 4 for that, sorry.

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