QT 5.8.0 install on Jetson TK1

Knoobie

I have read through multiple forums including QT but I'm not able to get past my initial issues to install 5.8.0 on Jetson TK1. Hopefully someone can point my silly mistake as I have already spent 3 days trying to figure it out!

I have tried to run the *.run with following issues:

Got the qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run using wget command
ran chmod u+x qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run to update it to execute
when i try to run ./qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run i get "-bash: ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error"
when i run sudo ./qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run i get the following error:
./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: 1: ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: ELF: not found
./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: 2: ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: cannot open ?: No such file
./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: 2: ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: I
: not found
./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: 3: ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.8.0.run: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
The file is owned by user ubuntu

So, with no luck, I thought installing using code might work:

I downloaded qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0.tar.xz file
extracted the file
created folder /opt/qt-5.8.0, symlinked /opt/qt5/
Copied extracted files into /opt/qt5
in /opt/qt5/ ran sudo ./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -opensource -nomake tests and it errors out saying:
+ cd qtbase
+ /opt/qt-5.8.0/qtbase/configure -top-level -prefix /opt/qt5/qtbase -opensource -nomake tests

This is the Qt Open Source Edition.

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.
You are also licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Type 'L' to view the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.
Type 'G' to view the GNU General Public License version 2.
Type 'yes' to accept this license offer.
Type 'no' to decline this license offer.

Do you accept the terms of either license? y

Creating qmake...
.Done.

ERROR: Unknown command line option '-prefix'.
6. only sudo ./configure works but sudo make after that never completes, It ran for 2 days before i decide to kill it.

I checked and made sure Jetson TK1 is 64 bit architecture, here are some results of some commands

ubuntu@tegra-ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux tegra-ubuntu 3.10.96-tegra #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 9 19:42:57 PST 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Any direction is much appreciated.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

The Qt pre-built packages are build for x86/x86_64 not ARM hence the error you got.

As for your build attempt, why are you putting things in /opt ? Since you have to build Qt by hand, just put it in your user home folder so there's no need to fiddle with sudo uselessly until you install.

You should also rather use an out of source build. That way if something goes wrong or you want to try a different set of configuration option you can easily start from a new folder or nuke the current build. This also avoids to have to clean the sources every time you have to re-run configure.

Knoobie

Hello @SGaist

Thank you for the response!

I was trying several different things and followed some instructions where they were indicating to install in /opt.

I have tried your suggestion of extracting it in the home directory and when i run configure I get exactly the same result:

ubuntu@tegra-ubuntu:~/qt5$ ./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -opensource -nomake tests

cd qtbase
/home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase/configure -top-level -prefix /home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase -opensource -nomake tests

This is the Qt Open Source Edition.

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.
You are also licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Type 'L' to view the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.
Type 'G' to view the GNU General Public License version 2.
Type 'yes' to accept this license offer.
Type 'no' to decline this license offer.

Do you accept the terms of either license? y

Creating qmake...
........................................................................................Done.
Info: creating stash file /home/ubuntu/qt5/.qmake.stash
Info: creating super cache file /home/ubuntu/qt5/.qmake.super

ERROR: Unknown command line option '-prefix'.

SGaist

There's something fishy going on. The -prefix option is part of configure since a very long time.

Maybe a silly question but are you sure you are using the - the minus char ? Depending on your keyboard it might be a similar yet a different character (thinking utf-8)

Knoobie

That was my though too and I tried with single and double '-' with no luck!

However, I followed the instructions here (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/configure-options.html) and was able to install QT successfully, summary of steps is below. I have no explanation as to why this worked!

export QT_SELECT=qt5

wget http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.8/5.8.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0.tar.gz
tar -xv qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0.tar.gz
mv qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0 qt-source
mkdir qt-build
mkdir /opt/qt5
cd qt-build
~/qt-source/configure -prefix /opt/qt5
qmake
make
make install

chris-laplante

Re: QT 5.8.0 install on Jetson TK1

Hi all,

Something similar tripped me up with Qt 5.9.1, but I was able to resolve it. For me the culprit was failing to copy all the "hidden" dot files, e.g.:

./qtbase/config.tests/.qmake.conf
./qtbase/tests/auto/tools/qmake/testdata/export_across_file_boundaries/.qmake.cache
./qtbase/.tag
./qtbase/.QT-ENTERPRISE-LICENSE-AGREEMENT
./qtbase/.QT-PROFESSIONAL-LICENSE-AGREEMENT
./qtbase/.qmake.conf
./qtbase/.release-timestamp
./qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/.qmake.conf
./qtbase/.QT-FOR-DEVICE-CREATION-LICENSE-AGREEMENT
./qtbase/.QT-FOR-APPLICATION-DEVELOPMENT-LICENSE-AGREEMENT
./qtbase/.QT-FOR-AUTOMOTIVE-LICENSE-AGREEMENT
./qtbase/.QT-INDIE-LICENSE-AGREEMENT

For whatever reason, when these files are missing, the 'configure' tool fails to interpret any options passed to it, even though it does build qmake. The result were errors like this: ERROR: Unknown command line option '-prefix'.

Hope this helps someone.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Can you explain the steps you did when the configuration/build failed ?