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Cross compilation and Qt configuration issue with Xlib

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    X-Krys
    wrote on last edited by X-Krys
    #1

    I'm trying to configure Qt to cross compile it for a different OS (Debian Stretch) than my host.

    I built a toolchain using Crosstool-NG and have a copy of my target sysroot on my host.

    I can't manage to get the EGLFS on X11 feature since Xlib test fails at config time.

    Here the configure output:

    Building on: linux-g++ (x86_64, CPU features: mmx sse sse2)
    Building for: devices/linux-generic-g++ (x86_64, CPU features: mmx sse sse2)
    Target compiler: gcc 8.2.0
    Configuration: cross_compile use_gold_linker sse2 aesni sse3 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 avx avx2 avx512f avx512bw avx512cd avx512dq avx512er avx512ifma avx512pf avx512vbmi avx512vl compile_examples enable_new_dtags f16c largefile precompile_header rdrnd shani x86SimdAlways shared rpath release c++11 c++14 c++1z concurrent dbus reduce_exports reduce_relocations stl
    Build options:
      Mode ................................... release
      Optimize release build for size ........ no
      Building shared libraries .............. yes
      Using C standard ....................... C11
      Using C++ standard ..................... C++1z
      Using ccache ........................... no
      Using gold linker ...................... yes
      Using new DTAGS ........................ yes
      Using precompiled headers .............. yes
      Using LTCG ............................. no
      Target compiler supports:
        SSE .................................. SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
        AVX .................................. AVX AVX2
        AVX512 ............................... F ER CD PF DQ BW VL IFMA VBMI
        Other x86 ............................ AES F16C RDRAND SHA
        Intrinsics without -mXXX option ...... yes
      Build parts ............................ libs
    Qt modules and options:
      Qt Concurrent .......................... yes
      Qt D-Bus ............................... yes
      Qt D-Bus directly linked to libdbus .... no
      Qt Gui ................................. yes
      Qt Network ............................. yes
      Qt Sql ................................. yes
      Qt Testlib ............................. yes
      Qt Widgets ............................. yes
      Qt Xml ................................. yes
    Support enabled for:
      Using pkg-config ....................... yes
      udev ................................... yes
      Using system zlib ...................... yes
    Qt Core:
      DoubleConversion ....................... yes
        Using system DoubleConversion ........ no
      GLib ................................... yes
      iconv .................................. no
      ICU .................................... yes
      Tracing backend ........................ <none>
      Logging backends:
        journald ............................. yes
        syslog ............................... no
        slog2 ................................ no
      Using system PCRE2 ..................... no
    Qt Network:
      getifaddrs() ........................... yes
      IPv6 ifname ............................ yes
      libproxy ............................... no
      Linux AF_NETLINK ....................... yes
      OpenSSL ................................ yes
        Qt directly linked to OpenSSL ........ no
      OpenSSL 1.1 ............................ yes
      DTLS ................................... yes
      SCTP ................................... no
      Use system proxies ..................... yes
    Qt Gui:
      Accessibility .......................... yes
      FreeType ............................... yes
        Using system FreeType ................ yes
      HarfBuzz ............................... yes
        Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
      Fontconfig ............................. yes
      Image formats:
        GIF .................................. yes
        ICO .................................. yes
        JPEG ................................. yes
          Using system libjpeg ............... no
        PNG .................................. yes
          Using system libpng ................ yes
      EGL .................................... yes
      OpenVG ................................. no
      OpenGL:
        Desktop OpenGL ....................... yes
        OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ no
        OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ no
        OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ no
        OpenGL ES 3.2 ........................ no
      Vulkan ................................. no
      Session Management ..................... yes
    Features used by QPA backends:
      evdev .................................. yes
      libinput ............................... yes
      INTEGRITY HID .......................... no
      mtdev .................................. no
      tslib .................................. no
      xkbcommon .............................. yes
      X11 specific:
        XLib ................................. no
        XCB Xlib ............................. no
        EGL on X11 ........................... no
    QPA backends:
      DirectFB ............................... no
      EGLFS .................................. yes
      EGLFS details:
        EGLFS OpenWFD ........................ no
        EGLFS i.Mx6 .......................... no
        EGLFS i.Mx6 Wayland .................. no
        EGLFS RCAR ........................... no
        EGLFS EGLDevice ...................... yes
        EGLFS GBM ............................ no
        EGLFS VSP2 ........................... no
        EGLFS Mali ........................... no
        EGLFS Raspberry Pi ................... no
        EGLFS X11 ............................ no
      LinuxFB ................................ yes
      VNC .................................... yes
      Mir client ............................. no
      XCB:
        Using system-provided XCB libraries .. no
        XCB XKB .............................. no
        XCB XInput ........................... yes
        Native painting (experimental) ....... no
        GL integrations:
          GLX Plugin ......................... no
          EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... no
    Qt Sql:
      SQL item models ........................ yes
    Qt Widgets:
      GTK+ ................................... no
      Styles ................................. Fusion Windows
    Qt PrintSupport:
      CUPS ................................... no
    Qt Sql Drivers:
      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 Testlib:
      Tester for item models ................. yes
    Qt SerialBus:
      Socket CAN ............................. yes
      Socket CAN FD .......................... yes
    Qt QML:
      QML network support .................... yes
      QML debugging and profiling support .... yes
      QML sequence object .................... yes
      QML list model ......................... yes
      QML XML http request ................... yes
      QML Locale ............................. yes
      QML delegate model ..................... yes
    Qt Quick:
      Direct3D 12 ............................ no
      AnimatedImage item ..................... yes
      Canvas item ............................ yes
      Support for Qt Quick Designer .......... yes
      Flipable item .......................... yes
      GridView item .......................... yes
      ListView item .......................... yes
      TableView item ......................... yes
      Path support ........................... yes
      PathView item .......................... yes
      Positioner items ....................... yes
      Repeater item .......................... yes
      ShaderEffect item ...................... yes
      Sprite item ............................ yes
    Qt Scxml:
      ECMAScript data model for QtScxml ...... yes
    Qt Gamepad:
      SDL2 ................................... no
    Qt 3D:
      Assimp ................................. yes
      System Assimp .......................... no
      Output Qt3D Job traces ................. no
      Output Qt3D GL traces .................. no
      Use SSE2 instructions .................. yes
      Use AVX2 instructions .................. no
      Aspects:
        Render aspect ........................ yes
        Input aspect ......................... yes
        Logic aspect ......................... yes
        Animation aspect ..................... yes
        Extras aspect ........................ yes
    Qt 3D Renderers:
      OpenGL Renderer ........................ yes
    Qt 3D GeometryLoaders:
      Autodesk FBX ........................... no
    Qt Wayland Drivers:
      EGL .................................... yes
      Raspberry Pi ........................... no
      XComposite EGL ......................... no
      XComposite GLX ......................... no
      DRM EGL ................................ yes
      libhybris EGL .......................... no
      Shm emulation server buffer integration . yes
    Qt Wayland Client ........................ yes
    Qt Wayland Compositor .................... yes
    Qt Wayland Compositor Layer Plugins:
      VSP2 hardware layer integration ........ no
    Qt Bluetooth:
      BlueZ .................................. no
      BlueZ Low Energy ....................... no
      Linux Crypto API ....................... no
      WinRT Bluetooth API (desktop & UWP) .... no
    Qt Sensors:
      sensorfw ............................... no
    Qt Quick Controls 2:
      Styles ................................. Default Fusion Imagine Material Universal
    Qt Quick Templates 2:
      Hover support .......................... yes
      Multi-touch support .................... yes
    Qt Positioning:
      Gypsy GPS Daemon ....................... no
      WinRT Geolocation API .................. no
    Qt Location:
      Qt.labs.location experimental QML plugin . yes
      Geoservice plugins:
        OpenStreetMap ........................ yes
        HERE ................................. yes
        Esri ................................. yes
        Mapbox ............................... yes
        MapboxGL ............................. yes
        Itemsoverlay ......................... yes
    QtXmlPatterns:
      XML schema support ..................... yes
    Qt Multimedia:
      ALSA ................................... no
      GStreamer 1.0 .......................... yes
      GStreamer 0.10 ......................... no
      Video for Linux ........................ yes
      OpenAL ................................. no
      PulseAudio ............................. yes
      Resource Policy (libresourceqt5) ....... no
      Windows Audio Services ................. no
      DirectShow ............................. no
      Windows Media Foundation ............... no
    Qt Tools:
      QDoc ................................... no
    Qt WebEngine:
      Embedded build ......................... yes
      Pepper Plugins ......................... no
      Printing and PDF ....................... no
      Proprietary Codecs ..................... no
      Spellchecker ........................... yes
      Native Spellchecker .................... no
      WebRTC ................................. no
      Use System Ninja ....................... no
      Geolocation ............................ yes
      WebChannel support ..................... yes
      Use v8 snapshot ........................ yes
      Kerberos Authentication ................ no
      Building v8 snapshot supported ......... yes
      Use ALSA ............................... no
      Use PulseAudio ......................... yes
      Optional system libraries used:
        re2 .................................. no
        icu .................................. no
        libwebp, libwebpmux and libwebpdemux . no
        opus ................................. no
        ffmpeg ............................... no
        libvpx ............................... no
        snappy ............................... no
        glib ................................. yes
        zlib ................................. yes
        minizip .............................. no
        libevent ............................. no
        jsoncpp .............................. no
        protobuf ............................. no
        libxml2 and libxslt .................. no
        lcms2 ................................ no
        png .................................. yes
        JPEG ................................. no
        harfbuzz ............................. no
        freetype ............................. yes
        x11 .................................. yes
      Required system libraries:
        fontconfig ........................... yes
        dbus ................................. no
        nss .................................. no
        khr .................................. yes
        glibc ................................ yes
      Required system libraries for qpa-xcb:
        libdrm ............................... yes
        xcomposite ........................... no
        xcursor .............................. no
        xi ................................... yes
        xrandr ............................... no
        xtst ................................. no
    
    Note: Also available for Linux: linux-clang linux-icc
    
    Note: PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR automatically set to /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/share/pkgconfig:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
    
    Note: PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR automatically set to /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot
    
    Note: journald, syslog or slog2 integration is enabled.
    If your users intend to develop applications against this build,
    ensure that the IDEs they use either set QT_FORCE_STDERR_LOGGING to 1
    or are able to read the logged output from journald, syslog or slog2.
    
    Note: Disabling X11 Accessibility Bridge: D-Bus or AT-SPI is missing.
    
    WARNING: QDoc will not be compiled, probably because libclang could not be located. This means that you cannot build the Qt documentation.
    
    Either ensure that llvm-config is in your PATH environment variable, or set LLVM_INSTALL_DIR to the location of your llvm installation.
    On Linux systems you may be able to install libclang from a package. On macOS you could use Homebrew's llvm package.
    On Windows you need to set LLVM_INSTALL_DIR to the installation path.
    

    Here is the xlib config test verbose output:

    Using built-in specs.
    COLLECT_GCC=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++
    COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/lto-wrapper
    Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
    Configured with: /home/e381734/workspace/toolchain/x86_64-linux-gnu-8.2.0/.build/x86_64-linux-gnu/src/gcc/configure --build=x86_64-build_pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-build_pc-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0 --with-sysroot=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/x86_64-linux-gnu/sysroot --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-pkgversion='crosstool-NG 1.23.0.588-0364e3c' --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libmudflap --disable-libgomp --disable-libssp --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --disable-libsanitizer --enable-libmpx --with-gmp=/home/e381734/workspace/toolchain/x86_64-linux-gnu-8.2.0/.build/x86_64-linux-gnu/buildtools --with-mpfr=/home/e381734/workspace/toolchain/x86_64-linux-gnu-8.2.0/.build/x86_64-linux-gnu/buildtools --with-mpc=/home/e381734/workspace/toolchain/x86_64-linux-gnu-8.2.0/.build/x86_64-linux-gnu/buildtools --with-isl=/home/e381734/workspace/toolchain/x86_64-linux-gnu-8.2.0/.build/x86_64-linux-gnu/buildtools --disable-lto --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++ -lm' --enable-threads=posix --enable-target-optspace --with-linker-hash-style=both --disable-plugin --disable-nls --disable-multilib --with-local-prefix=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/x86_64-linux-gnu/sysroot --enable-long-long --enable-multiarch
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 8.2.0 (crosstool-NG 1.23.0.588-0364e3c) 
    COMPILER_PATH=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/
    LIBRARY_PATH=/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/../lib64/:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/../lib64/:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/:/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/
    COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-fuse-ld=gold' '-o' 'xlib' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64'
     /home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/collect2 --sysroot=/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot --eh-frame-hdr --hash-style=both -m elf_x86_64 -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -fuse-ld=gold -o xlib /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o /home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/crtbegin.o -L/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0 -L/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/../lib64 -L/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/../lib64 -L/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib -L/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib -L/home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib -O1 main.o /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc_s -lgcc -lc -lgcc_s -lgcc /home/e381734/x-tools/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-8.2.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.2.0/crtend.o /home/e381734/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: error: undefined reference to '__strtof128_nan', version 'GLIBC_PRIVATE'
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    

    I checked the symbols in libm with :

    strings ~/workspace/qt/cross-compile/debian/sysroot/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 | grep __strtof128_nan
    

    and as the error says it's missing __strtof128_nan.

    Any idea about this error ?

    Thanks in advance,

    X-Krys

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      Hi,

      Out of curiosity what is your host machine that you need to cross-compile to a x86_64 target ?

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        X-Krys
        wrote on last edited by X-Krys
        #3

        Actually it is also a x86_64 machine, it just about a cross OS compilation not a regular cross architecture compilation.

        I know I could do a chroot build for instance but I guess it should be doable the cross compilation way.

        Afterall it is just about a toolchain and a sysroot.

        I'm trying to figure out what is the issue with my build environment that lead me to this error.

        By the way just the xlib compilation seems to fail, I can still do the qt build but the xcb qpa backend will be skipped.

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          The thing is, it seems to be looking at the libm.so.6 of your machine and not the one from the sysroot.

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