Compile QT 5.8 to cross-compile Beaglebone

Dario

@SGaist I've do the next step based on http://blog.ventisei.eu/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wZSRiB23o-LMRMv039al9q8_ga7I1V7XrCfaT84smkM/edit?usp=sharing

The error that i get is:
Creating qmake...
........................................................................................Done.
Info: creating stash file /home/dario/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0/.qmake.stash
Info: creating super cache file /home/dario/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0/.qmake.super

Running configuration tests...
Checking for gold linker... no
Checking for valid makespec...
ERROR: Cannot compile a minimal program. The toolchain or QMakeSpec is broken.

Check config.log for details.

The config.log file is here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4dS_vNgkiYAVVlidlVrTHo1NXM/view?usp=sharing

Can you help me?

SGaist

Please add the -v option to have more details about what is happening.

Also, you should do out of source build, so if something goes wrong you can just nuke the build folder and start anew.

mzimmers

Hi, SGaist and Dario -

I had to rebuild my Linux system from scratch recently, and am just now getting my cross-development tools working with the Beaglebone Black. I think I'm almost there...right now, when I attempt to debug, I get an error message from the target system: "Architecture rejected target-supplied description."

I've gone over my notes, and it doesn't seem like I encountered this before. The binary I build for the BBB does run (it's just hello world), so I'm wondering if the error message refers to the debugger I'm invoking? SGaist: any suggestions?

Once I have this working, I'll make an improved write-up of the necessary steps and post it in this thread.

SGaist

You are maybe using the wrong GDB to connect to your target.

mzimmers

Indeed I was. I can now debug hello world, though I am getting this warning when I start:

Could not load shared library symbols for 7 libraries, e.g. /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/librt.so.1.
Use the "info sharedlibrary" command to see the complete listing.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?

It didn't affect this particular program, but I'd like to remedy this. Can you please remind me what needs to be done here? As I recall, it's something to do with sysroot, but I can't remember the details.

Thanks.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I also get this message at program startup:

stdin: is not a tty

Is this because I haven't allocated a terminal for the output of the debug session?

SGaist

I never got that one but I'd check the Kit for the sysroot related stuff.

That would make sense yes.

mzimmers

My BBB kit's sysroot is set to the one I downloaded from Linaro. Is there anything else I need to do? I don't copy it to the BBB, do I?

Andrey Shmelew

@mzimmers

Hi! Once you have compiled qt-creator 5.8. did you get .so libraries for BBB?
A mean libQt5Gui.so.5.8.0, libQt5Serial.so.5.8.0 etc... for BBB debian images.
what versions of .so libraries are installed now on your beaglebone black board?

mzimmers

@Andrey-Shmelew Compiling qt-creator does not give you those libraries. To get them, I believe you need to do a full build of Q for the BBB.

Andrey Shmelew

Ok!

Now i have on Windows host machine Qt creator 5.5.0, on BBB i have libraries *.so.5.3.2. How can I be sure that the application will work identiaclly on Windows Host machine and on Linux BeagleBone Board?

jsulm

@Andrey-Shmelew said in Compile QT 5.8 to cross-compile Beaglebone:

How can I be sure that the application will work identiaclly on Windows Host machine and on Linux BeagleBone Board?

Do you want to use your app on Windows and BBB?
To be sure it behaves the same you need to test on both.
To develop on Windows for BBB you need the Qt libs built for BBB on your Windows machine as well + cross compiler + sysroot.

Andrey Shmelew

@jsulm said in Compile QT 5.8 to cross-compile Beaglebone:

Do you want to use your app on Windows and BBB?

I want to use my application on BBB, but i want it develop and debug on Windows first.
I plan to develop multithread stable secutiy system based on BBB/Qt/QML. I already have the Qt libs built for BBB on your Windows machine as well + cross compiler + sysroot. But Qt libs was prebuilt. Now i can develop app on Windows and deploy it on BBB, but i am not sure it is the best way.

jsulm

@Andrey-Shmelew said in Compile QT 5.8 to cross-compile Beaglebone:

but i am not sure it is the best way

Why not? It is the usual way to develop for other devices. Personally I would prefer Linux as development machine, but it is doable on Windows as well.

Andrey Shmelew

@jsulm

You think i should ignore mismatches of libraries versions (*.so.5.3.2 against Qt creator 5.8.0) and keep going?

jsulm

@Andrey-Shmelew There is no QtCreator 5.8 - current version is 4.2.2.
QtCreator is not the same as Qt. QtCreator is an IDE, Qt is a C++ framework. You can use any Qt version with QtCreator. QtCreator version doesn't matter at all.
Or do you mean you have Qt 5.8 built for BBB on your Windows machine?

Andrey Shmelew

@jsulm
i have
on Host Windows 10:
Qt Creator 4.1.0
Based on Qt 5.7.0 (MSVC 2013, 32 bit)
Qt Creator has a Kit for BBB

on Host Windows 10:
GNU toolchaon for BeagleBone, GCC version 4.9.2 (libs, compiler, gdb debugger, sysroot)

Andrey Shmelew

@Andrey-Shmelew

trying to compile Qt 5.8 for BBB.
Configure script:

../qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0/configure -platform win32-g++ -xplatform linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ -release -device linux-beagleboard-g++ -sysroot C:/SysGCC/Beaglebone/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot -prefix /usr/local/qt5 -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=C:/SysGCC/Beaglebone/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -opensource -confirm-license -v

the output

Configure summary:

Building on:  arm
Building for: arm
Configuration: cross_compile compile_examples enable_new_dtags largefile neon precompile_header shared rpath accessibility release c++11 concurrent dbus no-pkg-config mremap reduce_exports stl
Build options:
  Mode ................................... release
  Building shared libraries .............. yes
  Using C++ standard ..................... C++11
  Using gold linker ...................... no
  Using new DTAGS ........................ yes
  Using precompiled headers .............. yes
  Using LTCG ............................. no
  Target compiler supports:
    NEON ................................. yes
  Build parts ............................ libs examples
Qt modules and options:
  Qt Concurrent .......................... yes
  Qt D-Bus ............................... yes
  Qt D-Bus directly linked to libdbus .... no
  Qt Gui ................................. yes
  Qt Widgets ............................. yes
Support enabled for:
  Accessibility .......................... yes
  Using pkg-config ....................... no
  QML debugging .......................... yes
  udev ................................... no
  Using system zlib ...................... yes
Qt Core:
  DoubleConversion ....................... yes
    Using system DoubleConversion ........ no
  GLib ................................... no
  iconv .................................. no
  ICU .................................... no
  Logging backends:
    journald ............................. no
    syslog ............................... no
  Using system PCRE ...................... no
Qt Network:
  getaddrinfo() .......................... no
  getifaddrs() ........................... no
  IPv6 ifname ............................ no
  libproxy ............................... no
  OpenSSL ................................ no
    Qt directly linked to OpenSSL ........ no
  SCTP ................................... no
  Use system proxies ..................... yes
Qt Sql:
  DB2 (IBM) .............................. no
  InterBase .............................. no
  MySql .................................. no
  OCI (Oracle) ........................... no
  ODBC ................................... no
  PostgreSQL ............................. no
  SQLite2 ................................ no
  SQLite ................................. yes
    Using system provided SQLite ......... no
  TDS (Sybase) ........................... no
Qt Gui:
  FreeType ............................... yes
    Using system FreeType ................ no
  HarfBuzz ............................... yes
    Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
  Fontconfig ............................. no
  Image formats:
    GIF .................................. yes
    ICO .................................. yes
    JPEG ................................. yes
      Using system libjpeg ............... no
    PNG .................................. yes
      Using system libpng ................ no
  OpenGL:
    EGL .................................. no
    Desktop OpenGL ....................... no
    OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ no
  Session Management ..................... yes
Features used by QPA backends:
  evdev .................................. no
  libinput ............................... no
  mtdev .................................. no
  tslib .................................. no
  xkbcommon-evdev ........................ no
QPA backends:
  DirectFB ............................... no
  EGLFS .................................. no
  LinuxFB ................................ no
  Mir client ............................. no
Qt Widgets:
  GTK+ ................................... no
  Styles ................................. Fusion Windows
Qt PrintSupport:
  CUPS ................................... no
Qt SerialBus:
  Socket CAN ............................. no
  Socket CAN FD .......................... no
QtXmlPatterns:
  XML schema support ..................... yes
Qt QML:
  QML interpreter ........................ yes
  QML network support .................... yes
Qt Quick:
  Direct3D 12 ............................ no
  AnimatedImage item ..................... yes
  Canvas item ............................ yes
  Support for Quick Designer ............. yes
  Flipable item .......................... yes
  GridView item .......................... yes
  ListView item .......................... yes
  Path support ........................... yes
  PathView item .......................... yes
  Positioner items ....................... yes
  ShaderEffect item ...................... yes
  Sprite item ............................ yes
Qt Gamepad:
  SDL2 ................................... no
Qt 3D:
  System Assimp .......................... no
Qt Wayland Client ........................ no
Qt Wayland Compositor .................... no
Qt Bluetooth:
  BlueZ .................................. no
  BlueZ Low Energy ....................... no
  Linux Crypto API ....................... no
Qt Multimedia:
  ALSA ................................... no
  GStreamer 1.0 .......................... no
  GStreamer 0.10 ......................... no
  Video for Linux ........................ no
  OpenAL ................................. no
  PulseAudio ............................. no
  Resource Policy (libresourceqt5) ....... no
  DirectShow ............................. no
  Windows Media Foundation ............... no
Qt Location:
  Gypsy GPS Daemon ....................... no
  WinRT Geolocation API .................. no
Qt Sensors:
  sensorfw ............................... no
Qt WebEngine:
  Proprietary Codecs ..................... no
  Spellchecker ........................... yes
  ALSA ................................... no
  PulseAudio ............................. no

Note: QtSerialBus: Cannot find linux/can.h and linux/can/raw.h Linux headers for socketCAN support.

Note: No wayland-egl support detected. Cross-toolkit compatibility disabled.

WARNING: No QPA platform plugin enabled! This will
produce a Qt that cannot run GUI applications.
The dependencies needed for xcb to build are listed in
src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README

ERROR: detected a std::atomic implementation that fails for function pointers.
Please apply the patch corresponding to your Standard Library vendor, found in
  qtbase/config.tests/common/atomicfptr

ERROR: The OpenGL functionality tests failed!
You might need to modify the include and library search paths by editing QMAKE_INCDIR_OPENGL[_ES2],
QMAKE_LIBDIR_OPENGL[_ES2] and QMAKE_LIBS_OPENGL[_ES2] in the mkspec for your platform.

Have 1 Warning and 2 Errors :( :( :( :( :(
What do i do wrong? Help!
(qt 5.5.0 compiled succesfully earlier)

mzimmers

This is the command that I used to configure Qt for BBB. Obviously, you'll need to change some pathnames, but it might work better than what you're doing now.

opt/Qt/5.8/Src/qtbase/configure -platform linux-g++ -xplatform linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ -release -device linux-beagleboard-g++ \
 -sysroot /opt/arm-toolchain/sysroot-glibc-linaro-2.23-2017.02-arm-linux-gnueabihf/ \
 -prefix /opt/QtForBBB/ \
 -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/arm-toolchain/gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- \
 -qt-xcb \
 -nomake tests -nomake examples -no-opengl

Andrey Shmelew

@mzimmers

ok, i see you are using Linux host machine.
Where to download linaro toolchain?

jsulm

@Andrey-Shmelew

https://www.linaro.org/downloads/