Cross compile from Ubuntu Desktop to Raspberry Pi 2

hubaiz

I managed to cross compile Qt 5.8 for the Raspberry Pi 3 (latest Raspbian) with the xbomber tip from this post (at the end): https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/issues/50
Was following the EGLFS guide ( https://wiki.qt.io/RaspberryPi2EGLFS ) on a Linux Mint 17.3 x64 virtual machine.
I used the linux-rasp-pi2-g++ device configuration and the arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf toolchain.
Used the Qt 5.8 source tar.gz without the qtserialbus and qtwebengine

Fifkie

@hubaiz Looking promising!
I just wonder, the second script, is there anything else i need to change than the path to tools and sysroot when targeting qt5.8 and raspberry 3?

i changed the paths and ran the script in qtbase but got errors.

Running configuration tests...
Checking for valid makespec... 
+ cd /home/christian/raspi/qtbase/config.tests/common/verifyspec && /home/christian/raspi/qtbase/bin/qmake "CONFIG -= qt debug_and_release app_bundle lib_bundle" "CONFIG += shared console" "QMAKE_CFLAGS += --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot" "QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot" "QMAKE_LFLAGS += --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot" -early "CONFIG += cross_compile" /home/christian/raspi/qtbase/config.tests/common/verifyspec
+ cd /home/christian/raspi/qtbase/config.tests/common/verifyspec && MAKEFLAGS= /usr/bin/make clean && MAKEFLAGS= /usr/bin/make
> rm -f verifyspec.o
> rm -f *~ core *.core
> /home/christian/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -c -pipe -marm -mfpu=vfp -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -march=armv6zk -mabi=aapcs-linux -mfloat-abi=hard --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot -O2 -std=gnu++11 -Wall -W -fPIC  -I. -I/home/christian/raspi/qtbase/mkspecs/devices/linux-rasp-pi-g++ -o verifyspec.o verifyspec.cpp
> cp: cannot stat 'home/christian/raspi/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/crt*': No such file or directory
> /home/christian/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/christian/raspi/sysroot/opt/vc/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/christian/raspi/sysroot/usr/lib/ -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/christian/raspi/sysroot/lib/ -mfloat-abi=hard --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot --sysroot=/home/christian/raspi/sysroot -Wl,-O1 -o verifyspec verifyspec.o    
> cp: cannot stat 'home/christian/raspi/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/crt*': No such file or directory
> /home/christian/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.3/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
> /home/christian/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.3/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
> /home/christian/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9.3/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:65: recipe for target 'verifyspec' failed
> make: *** [verifyspec] Error 1
Note: Also available for Linux: linux-clang linux-kcc linux-icc linux-cxx

ERROR: Cannot compile a minimal program. The toolchain or QMakeSpec is broken.

Got any idea whats wrong?

shymaxtic

@Fifkie Have you fix this error?

StoatPatronus

I ran into this a few weeks ago when upgrading from Qt 5.7 to 5.8 and following the wiki's instructions. I added -skip qtwebengine -no-icu when I ran ./configure because I don't need those features in my app and it worked fine after that.

Fifkie

@StoatPatronus Did you put it in the script? I get an error when i try to run it:

ERROR: Unknown command line option '-skip'.

Have tried to put in the beginning and in the end of the script, but i guess as long it doesn't know what it is that does not matter.

jsulm

@Fifkie Can you show your script?

Fifkie

@jsulm Sure!

It's this script:

#!/bin/sh
./configure -opengl es2 -device linux-rasp-pi-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/home/marco/Qt/5.3/tools-master/arm-bcm2708/arm-rpi-4.9.3-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -sysroot /home/marco/Qt/5.3/sysroot -opensource -confirm-license -optimized-qmake -reduce-exports -release -make libs -prefix /usr/local/qt5pi -hostprefix /usr/local/qt5pi -v

With the "-skip qtwebengine -no-icu" added. I've tried right in the beginning after ./configure, in the end and after "-opensource". Neither worked.

805Badger

@Fifkie

I was having the same issue and reconfigured with just the -no-icu flag and everything worked fine (I use qtwebengine in my app) my config string is as follows...

./configure -release -opengl es2 -device linux-rasp-pi2-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=~/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -sysroot ~/raspi/sysroot -opensource -confirm-license -prefix /usr/local/qt5pi -extprefix ~/raspi/qt5pi -no-icu -hostprefix ~/raspi/qt5 -v

StoatPatronus

@Fifkie Here's my command line, please replace the {{ stuff in brackets }} with the paths for your system:

./configure -release -opengl es2 -device linux-rasp-pi2-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE={{pi_folder}}/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -sysroot {{pi_folder}}/sysroot -opensource -confirm-license -skip qtwebengine -no-icu -make libs -prefix /usr/local/qt5pi -extprefix {{pi_folder}}/qt5pi -hostprefix {{pi_folder}}/qt5

One thing I noticed in the config string you posted is it looks like Qt 5.3 (/home/marco/Qt/5.3/...etc) which I haven't tried - I only tried with 5.8.

Fifkie

@StoatPatronus Now as i review the script i posted, i must have just copied that from the tut, not from the script i use because there are several things not matching. But I got Kukkimonsuta's tutorial working for me so i got it working now. For anyone else looking for a solution just follow the steps at https://github.com/Kukkimonsuta/rpi-buildqt . Only thing i had to change was with one of the scripts i got an error that it didn't have the permission to sync one folder from the RPI. So in the sync script i just added

--exclude 'vnc'

in the rsync under "== Copy /usr/lib =="
That's because it wouldn't sync the vnc-folder.

StoatPatronus

@Fifkie I'm glad you got it working. Kukkimonsuta's guide is very helpful. For my project I wrote a couple Ansible playbooks to automate the process, so it's easy to upgrade to new versions of Qt in the future. Unfortunately I can't share them at this point, but I may later if I clean them up.

StoatPatronus

I cleaned up my ansible playbooks and posted them at https://bitbucket.org/johnwoltman/build_qt_for_pi_with_ansible