Error deploying Qt5 e.g. - EGLFS: failed to open /dev/fb0

[embdev]

Dear fellow coders, I built Qt5 with the following configuration parameters, executed an example in Qt5 and met with an error:

(1) Executing Qt5 configuration parameters:

./configure -commercial -confirm-license -release -static -eglfs -linuxfb -opengl es2 -platform linux-
g++-64 -device linux-arm-hi3536-g++ -prefix /home/aa/Hi3536_SDK_V2.0.4/v1_qt5.7_arm -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/hisi-linux/x86-arm/arm-hisiv400-linux/bin/arm-hisiv400-linux-gnueabi- -skip doc -v -qreal float

(2) Executed an example in Qt 5

/mnt/v1_qt5.7_arm/examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix # ./tetrix

(3) Error executing ./tetrix

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
EGLFS: Failed to open /dev/fb0
EGLFS: Can't continue without a display
Aborted

Could anyone advise if there's any solution to this error?

Thank you!

[SGaist]

Hi,

Do you have a device named /dev/fb0 ? If yes, do you have the rights to access it ?

[embdev]

@SGaist hi, I've a device in my embedded device and i'm also the root user #.

[SGaist]

Do you have anything else accessing that device ?

[embdev]

@SGaist i think I forgot to load my vendor framebuffer for this action. I ran a framebuffer in the background and was able to display the examples. Thanks!

[embdev]

@SGaist I did a reboot of my embedded device (via Putty device) and re-run the example tetrix (examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix) again and it seems that some fonts are missing. Basically I did the following actions:

1. Installed fontconfig and coped the folder [fonts] from /usr/shared/fonts into my [compiled Qt 5.7 fonts directory] i.e. /v1_qt5.7_arm/lib/fonts

2. Re-run the tetrix example again but still met with the following issues:

/mnt/v1_qt5.7_arm/examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix # ls
main.cpp          tetrixboard.cpp   tetrixpiece.h
tetrix            tetrixboard.h     tetrixwindow.cpp
tetrix.pro        tetrixpiece.cpp   tetrixwindow.h
/mnt/v1_qt5.7_arm/examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix # ./tetrix
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
Unable to query physical screen size, defaulting to 100 dpi.
To override, set QT_QPA_EGLFS_PHYSICAL_WIDTH and QT_QPA_EGLFS_PHYSICAL_HEIGHT (in millimeters).
QFontDatabase: Cannot find font directory /home/aa/Hi3536_SDK_V2.0.4.0/v1_qt5.7_arm/lib/fonts.
Note that Qt no longer ships fonts. Deploy some (from http://dejavu-fonts.org for example) or switch to fontconfig.

3. Do you've any advice for the issues:
   (I) fonts issues - it seems that I need to re-configure and build my qmake again but do you've any idea how may I do that? i.e. copy the fontconfig sources into a newly unzipped Qt5 sources before configure-build?
   (ii) Unable to query physical screen size, defaulting to 100 dpi?

Thank you!

[SGaist]

Temporarily put the fonts where QFontDatabase expects them.

Also you should compare the version of fontconfig you have installed with the one you used to build Qt.

[embdev]

@SGaist ok got it resolved. problem is that I do development on Ubuntu host before executing onto target. So during configuration and building Qt 5 sources, I need to add -prefix and -extprefix so that when I execute the Qt 5 app on my target, it's able to locate the fonts.