Deploying Qt Application on Linux

sierdzio

@sharath said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

@jsulm said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

One question: do you do cross compilation or do you build/deploy directly on your device?

i'm building directly on target device.

Then you need to compile linuxdeployqt on that device, too. Building instructions are in a file called BUILDING https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/blob/master/BUILDING.md

sharath

Thanks @sierdzio, i will try this

sharath

hello @sierdzio, i compiled linuxdeployqt on my device and trying to run below command

./linuxdeployqt /path/to/appbinary -appimage

i get following error

linuxdeployqt 6 (commit 5195ec1), build <local dev build> built on 2019-12-10 05:35:49 UTC
ERROR: The host system is too new.
Please run on a system with a glibc version no newer than what comes with the oldest
currently still-supported mainstream distribution (xenial), which is glibc 2.23.
This is so that the resulting bundle will work on most still-supported Linux distributions.
For more information, please see
https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/340

hskoglund

There's an alternative that's supposed to work on newer Linux systems:
https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy

sierdzio

@sharath said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

i get following error

Well, what do you expect from me? The error message tells you exactly what to do. Use an older operating system so that glibc is older.

Or use -unsupported-allow-new-glibc flag to suppress this error.

sharath

Thanks @sierdzio, it has worked and created all dependent libraries.

But when i take this app and run this in other machine i get below error

./AppRun: error while loading shared libraries: libGLdispatch.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sierdzio

Do you run linuxdeployqt with -appimage flag? Try running it twice, it sometimes helps.

Does your other machine have OpenGL libraries installed? Does it support OpenGL at all?

sharath

@sierdzio said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

Do you run linuxdeployqt with -appimage flag? Try running it twice, it sometimes helps.
Does your other machine have OpenGL libraries installed? Does it support OpenGL at all?

i ran linuxdeployqt with -appimage many times and also openGL is installed on my target system.

i'm getting same issue

sierdzio

OK then. Run with -verbose=3 and look at the output - perhaps there is some warning there that is important for you in this case.

You can try running deploy first without appimage flag, then copy the OpenGL library manually into the package, then run linuxdeployqt again with -appimage.

Lastly, maybe -extra-plugins= flag can be used to force linuxdeployqt to deploy that library.

sharath

@sierdzio thank you for your support, I don't know why this shows diff errors.

./app: /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /home/ninetripod/Documents/Vistaro_linux_1.0/bin/libopencv_core.so.4.0)
./app: /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /home/ninetripod/Documents/Vistaro_linux_1.0/bin/libopencv_imgproc.so.4.0)
./app: /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.11' not found (required by /home/ninetripod/Documents/Vistaro_linux_1.0/bin/libtbb.so.2)
./app: /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /home/ninetripod/Documents/Vistaro_linux_1.0/bin/libpng16.so.16)

sierdzio

Does the AppImage run correctly when you launch it on the original machine (same where you compile and run linuxdeployqt on)?

I don't have any further ideas.

sharath

@sierdzio when i run linuxdeployqt , below warning i'm getting

ninetripod@X3399:~/Documents/build-linuxdeployqt-Desktop-Debug/bin$ ./linuxdeployqt /home/ninetripod/Documents/vistaro_04_12/vistaro_build/vistaroQtQuick -appimage -unsupported-allow-new-glibc

WARNING: Not checking glibc on the host system.
         The resulting AppDir or AppImage may not run on older systems.
         This mode is unsupported and discouraged.
         For more information, please see
         https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/340
app-binary: "/home/ninetripod/Documents/vistaro_04_12/vistaro_build/vistaroQtQuick"
appDirPath: "/home/ninetripod/Documents/vistaro_04_12/vistaro_build"
relativeBinPath: "vistaroQtQuick"
Keeping existing AppRun
WARNING: Plugin "/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk2.so" not found, skipping
WARNING: Plugin "/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/styles/libqgtk2style.so" not found, skipping
WARNING: "/home/ninetripod/Documents/vistaro_04_12/vistaro_build/qt.conf" already exists, will not overwrite.

i think this is the issue i guess.

sharath

@sierdzio said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

Does the AppImage run correctly when you launch it on the original machine (same where you compile and run linuxdeployqt on)?

yes it has worked correctly.

sierdzio

I don't think gtk style plugins are a problem, they have little to do with OpenGL lib.

sharath

@sierdzio i got to know that im building my linudeployqt on latest version of glibc, it should build on older version of glibc. so that it can be run on any newer version glibc as stated in https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/340

sharath

@sierdzio is there any other method to deploy qt apps on linux other than linuxdeployqt? if yes, could you please give me the steps for it.

jsulm

@sharath If you read the link you posted you will find these parameters:

-unsupported-allow-new-glibc
-unsupported-bundle-everything
Did you try them?

sierdzio

@sharath said in Deploying Qt Application on Linux:

@sierdzio is there any other method to deploy qt apps on linux other than linuxdeployqt? if yes, could you please give me the steps for it.

Oh sure, there are other ways. I don't have any ready-made steps for them, thought.

You can:

create an installer using Qt Installer Framework
create DEB package
create RPM package
possibly create a snap package
possibly create a flatpak package

linuxdeployqt is by far the easiest way.

sharath

@jsulm Thanks for your reply.

Yes i did all these step. when i given the flag -unsupported-bundle-everything, i get below error

ERROR: runPatchelf: ""
ERROR: runPatchelf: ""
ERROR: runPatchelf: "warning: working around a Linux kernel bug by creating a hole of 69632 bytes in \xE2\x80\x98/home/ninetripod/Documents/Test_vistaro/lib/libc.so.6\xE2\x80\x99\n"
ERROR: findDependencyInfo: "/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: /home/ninetripod/Documents/Test_vistaro/lib/libc.so.6: file too short\n"
ERROR: getBinaryRPaths: "objdump: error while loading shared libraries: /home/ninetripod/Documents/Test_vistaro/lib/libc.so.6: file too short\n"
ERROR: Error reading rpath with patchelf "libmvPropHandling.so" : "patchelf: error while loading shared libraries: /home/ninetripod/Documents/Test_vistaro/lib/libc.so.6: file too short\n"