QT 5.15.0 cross-compile from source fails

[svcguy]

Hello,

I am hoping someone out there can help with getting QT to cross compile to RPI4. Here are the details:

Host System: WIN10
Target System: RPI4 (2020-05-27-raspios-buster-lite-armhf)
Native Compiler: 8.1.0-1-202004170606i686-8.1.0-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0 (downloaded from QT)
Cross Compiler: raspberry-gcc8.3.0-r2 (downloaded from gnutoolchains.com)
QT Source: qt-everywhere-src-5.15.0

I'm building in a MSYS2 enviornment (msys2-x86_64-20200720) and following a tutorial from a post on this forum which is based on this tutorial with the only thing changed is updated versions of the tools.

Thus far, I have been able to build qmake and configure (not sure if the config is exactly correct for the target system). The error occurs whenever make is trying to use qmltyperegistrar.exe for anything. Since I'm running make -j4, the build fails at different places but with the same error: "Bad Address"

'C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe' --generate-qmltypes=plugins.qmltypes --import-name=Qt.test.qtestroot --major-version=1 --minor-version=0 --foreign-types=C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5test_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5widgets_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quick_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5gui_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qmlmodels_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qml_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5network_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5core_metatypes.json --private-includes -o qt5quicktest_qmltyperegistrations.cpp qt5quicktest_metatypes.json
make[3]: execvp: C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe: Bad address
make[3]: *** [Makefile:742: qt5quicktest_qmltyperegistrations.cpp] Error 127
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory '/c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/src/qmltest'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:317: sub-qmltest-make_first-ordered] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:50: sub-src-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative'
make: *** [Makefile:340: module-qtdeclarative-make_first] Error 2

This is a bit cryptic, of course. So I tried running the command make is trying to run on both the MSYS2 command line and the native Windows command line and the result is the same:

PS C:\SysGCC\qt-build> C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe --generate-qmltypes=plugins.qmltypes --import-name=Qt.test.qtestroot --major-version=1 --minor-version=0 --foreign-types=C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5test_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5widgets_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quick_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5gui_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qmlmodels_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qml_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5network_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/Raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw32/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5core_metatypes.json --private-includes -o qt5quicktest_qmltyperegistrations.cpp qt5quicktest_metatypes.json
Error opening qt5quicktest_metatypes.json for reading

Again, this happens at different build steps but they always involve qmltyperegistrar.exe. This executable seems to run fine on its own:

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW32 /c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/bin
$ ./qmltyperegistrar.exe -?
Usage: C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe [options] [MOC generated json file]

Options:
  -?, -h, --help                       Displays help on commandline options.
  --help-all                           Displays help including Qt specific
                                       options.
  -v, --version                        Displays version information.
  -o <file>                            Write output to specified file.
  --private-includes                   Include headers ending in "_p.h" using
                                       "#include <private/foo_p.h>"rather than
                                       "#include <foo_p.h>".
  --import-name <module name>          Name of the module to use for type and
                                       module registrations.
  --major-version <major version>      Major version to use for type and module
                                       registrations.
  --minor-version <minor version>      Minor version to use for module
                                       registration.
  --generate-qmltypes <qmltypes file>  Generate qmltypes into specified file.
  --foreign-types <foreign types>      Comma separated list of other modules'

And the file in question seems to be ok: (partial copy of \qtdeclaritive\lib\metatypes\qt5quicktest_metatypes.json)

[
    {
        "classes": [
            {
                "classInfos": [
                    {
                        "name": "QML.Singleton",
                        "value": "true"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "QML.Element",
                        "value": "auto"
                    }
                ],
                "className": "QTestRootObject",
                "object": true,
                "properties": [
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "windowShown",
                        "notify": "windowShownChanged",
                        "read": "windowShown",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "bool",
                        "user": false
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "hasTestCase",
                        "notify": "hasTestCaseChanged",
                        "read": "hasTestCase",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "bool",
                        "user": false,
                        "write": "setHasTestCase"
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "defined",
                        "read": "defined",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "QObject*",
                        "user": false
                    }
                ],
                "qualifiedClassName": "QTestRootObject",
                "signals": [
                    {
                        "access": "public",
                        "name": "windowShownChanged",
                        "returnType": "void"
                    },
                    {
                        "access": "public",
                        "name": "hasTestCaseChanged",
                        "returnType": "void"
                    }
                ],
                "slots": [
                    {
                        "access": "private",
                        "name": "quit",
                        "returnType": "void"
                    }
                ],
                "superClasses": [
                    {
                        "access": "public",
                        "name": "QObject"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "inputFile": "quicktest_p.h",
        "outputRevision": 67
    },
    {
        "classes": [
            {
                "className": "QuickTestResult",
                "enums": [
                    {
                        "isClass": false,
                        "isFlag": false,
                        "name": "RunMode",
                        "values": [
                            "RepeatUntilValidMeasurement",
                            "RunOnce"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "object": true,
                "properties": [
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "testCaseName",
                        "notify": "testCaseNameChanged",
                        "read": "testCaseName",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "QString",
                        "user": false,
                        "write": "setTestCaseName"
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "functionName",
                        "notify": "functionNameChanged",
                        "read": "functionName",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "QString",
                        "user": false,
                        "write": "setFunctionName"
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "dataTag",
                        "notify": "dataTagChanged",
                        "read": "dataTag",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "QString",
                        "user": false,
                        "write": "setDataTag"
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "failed",
                        "read": "isFailed",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "bool",
                        "user": false
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "skipped",
                        "notify": "skippedChanged",
                        "read": "isSkipped",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "bool",
                        "user": false,
                        "write": "setSkipped"
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "passCount",
                        "read": "passCount",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "int",
                        "user": false
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,
                        "final": false,
                        "name": "failCount",
                        "read": "failCount",
                        "required": false,
                        "scriptable": true,
                        "stored": true,
                        "type": "int",
                        "user": false
                    },
                    {
                        "constant": false,
                        "designable": true,

I'm not quite sure where to go from here?!?

Here are some more details to help:

Configure Summary:

Building on: win32-g++ (i386, CPU features: <none>)
Building for: devices/linux-rasp-pi4-v3d-g++ (arm, CPU features: neon)
Target compiler: gcc 8.3.0
Configuration: cross_compile enable_new_dtags largefile neon shared shared rpath release c++11 c++14 c++17 c++1z concurrent dbus no-pkg-config reduce_exports stl
Build options:
  Mode ................................... release
  Optimize release build for size ........ no
  Building shared libraries .............. yes
  Using C standard ....................... C11
  Using C++ standard ..................... C++17
  Using ccache ........................... no
  Using new DTAGS ........................ yes
  Relocatable ............................ yes
  Using precompiled headers .............. no
  Using LTCG ............................. no
  Target compiler supports:
    NEON ................................. 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 ....................... no
  udev ................................... yes
  Using system zlib ...................... yes
  Zstandard support ...................... no
Qt Core:
  DoubleConversion ....................... yes
    Using system DoubleConversion ........ yes
  GLib ................................... no
  iconv .................................. no
  ICU .................................... yes
  Built-in copy of the MIME database ..... yes
  Tracing backend ........................ <none>
  Logging backends:
    journald ............................. no
    syslog ............................... no
    slog2 ................................ no
  PCRE2 .................................. yes
    Using system PCRE2 ................... yes
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
  OCSP-stapling .......................... yes
  SCTP ................................... yes
  Use system proxies ..................... yes
  GSSAPI ................................. no
Qt Gui:
  Accessibility .......................... yes
  FreeType ............................... yes
    Using system FreeType ................ yes
  HarfBuzz ............................... yes
    Using system HarfBuzz ................ yes
  Fontconfig ............................. yes
  Image formats:
    GIF .................................. yes
    ICO .................................. yes
    JPEG ................................. yes
      Using system libjpeg ............... yes
    PNG .................................. yes
      Using system libpng ................ yes
  Text formats:
    HtmlParser ........................... yes
    CssParser ............................ yes
    OdfWriter ............................ yes
    MarkdownReader ....................... yes
      Using system libmd4c ............... no
    MarkdownWriter ....................... yes
  EGL .................................... yes
  OpenVG ................................. no
  OpenGL:
    Desktop OpenGL ....................... no
    OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ yes
    OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ yes
    OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ yes
    OpenGL ES 3.2 ........................ yes
  Vulkan ................................. yes
  Session Management ..................... yes
Features used by QPA backends:
  evdev .................................. yes
  libinput ............................... no
  INTEGRITY HID .......................... no
  mtdev .................................. no
  tslib .................................. yes
  xkbcommon .............................. yes
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. yes
    EGL on X11 ........................... yes
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ yes
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 ...................... no
    EGLFS GBM ............................ no
    EGLFS VSP2 ........................... no
    EGLFS Mali ........................... no
    EGLFS Raspberry Pi ................... no
    EGLFS X11 ............................ yes
  LinuxFB ................................ yes
  VNC .................................... yes
  XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    Native painting (experimental) ....... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... no
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... yes
Qt Sql:
  SQL item models ........................ yes
Qt Widgets:
  GTK+ ................................... no
  Styles ................................. Fusion Windows
Qt PrintSupport:
  CUPS ................................... yes
Qt Sql Drivers:
  DB2 (IBM) .............................. no
  InterBase .............................. no
  MySql .................................. no
  OCI (Oracle) ........................... no
  ODBC ................................... yes
  PostgreSQL ............................. no
  SQLite2 ................................ yes
  SQLite ................................. yes
    Using system provided SQLite ......... no
  TDS (Sybase) ........................... yes
Qt Testlib:
  Tester for item models ................. yes
Serial Port:
  ntddmodm ............................... no
Qt SerialBus:
  Socket CAN ............................. yes
  Socket CAN FD .......................... yes
  SerialPort Support ..................... yes
Further Image Formats:
  JasPer ................................. no
  MNG .................................... yes
  TIFF ................................... yes
    Using system libtiff ................. yes
  WEBP ................................... yes
    Using system libwebp ................. no
Qt QML:
  QML network support .................... yes
  QML debugging and profiling support .... yes
  QML just-in-time compiler .............. yes
  QML sequence object .................... yes
  QML XML http request ................... yes
  QML Locale ............................. yes
Qt QML Models:
  QML list model ......................... 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
QtQuick3D:
  Assimp ................................. yes
  System Assimp .......................... no
Qt Scxml:
  ECMAScript data model for QtScxml ...... yes
Qt Gamepad:
  SDL2 ................................... no
Qt 3D:
  Assimp ................................. yes
  System Assimp .......................... no
  Output Qt3D GL traces .................. no
  Use SSE2 instructions .................. no
  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
  RHI Renderer ........................... no
Qt 3D GeometryLoaders:
  Autodesk FBX ........................... no
Qt Wayland Client ........................ no
Qt Wayland Compositor .................... no
Qt Bluetooth:
  BlueZ .................................. yes
  BlueZ Low Energy ....................... yes
  Linux Crypto API ....................... yes
  Native Win32 Bluetooth ................. no
  WinRT Bluetooth API (desktop & UWP) .... no
  WinRT advanced bluetooth low energy 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 ................................... yes
  GStreamer 1.0 .......................... no
  GStreamer 0.10 ......................... no
  Video for Linux ........................ yes
  OpenAL ................................. no
  PulseAudio ............................. no
  Resource Policy (libresourceqt5) ....... no
  Windows Audio Services ................. no
  DirectShow ............................. no
  Windows Media Foundation ............... no
Qt TextToSpeech:
  Flite .................................. no
  Flite with ALSA ........................ no
  Speech Dispatcher ...................... no
Qt Tools:
  Qt Assistant ........................... yes
  Qt Designer ............................ yes
  Qt Distance Field Generator ............ yes
  kmap2qmap .............................. yes
  Qt Linguist ............................ yes
  Mac Deployment Tool .................... no
  makeqpf ................................ yes
  pixeltool .............................. yes
  qdbus .................................. yes
  qev .................................... yes
  Qt Attributions Scanner ................ yes
  qtdiag ................................. yes
  qtpaths ................................ yes
  qtplugininfo ........................... yes
  Windows deployment tool ................ no
  WinRT Runner Tool ...................... no
Qt Tools:
  QDoc ................................... no
Qt WebEngine Build Tools:
  Use System Ninja ....................... no
  Use System Gn .......................... no
  Jumbo Build Merge Limit ................ 8
  Developer build ........................ no
  QtWebEngine required system libraries:
    fontconfig ........................... no
    dbus ................................. no
    nss .................................. no
    khr .................................. yes
    glibc ................................ yes
  QtWebEngine required system libraries for qpa-xcb:
    x11 .................................. no
    libdrm ............................... no
    xcomposite ........................... no
    xcursor .............................. no
    xi ................................... no
    xtst ................................. no
  Optional system libraries used:
    re2 .................................. no
    icu .................................. no
    libwebp, libwebpmux and libwebpdemux . no
    opus ................................. no
    ffmpeg ............................... no
    libvpx ............................... no
    snappy ............................... no
    glib ................................. no
    zlib ................................. no
    minizip .............................. no
    libevent ............................. no
    jsoncpp .............................. no
    protobuf ............................. no
    libxml2 and libxslt .................. no
    lcms2 ................................ no
    png .................................. no
    JPEG ................................. yes
    harfbuzz ............................. no
    freetype ............................. no
    xkbcommon ............................ yes

Note: Disabling X11 Accessibility Bridge: D-Bus or AT-SPI is missing.

Note: The following modules are not being compiled in this configuration:
    webenginecore
    webengine
    webenginewidgets
    pdf
    pdfwidgets

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 by installing the libclang-dev or libclang-devel package, depending on your distribution.

On macOS, you can use Homebrew's llvm package.

On Windows, you must set LLVM_INSTALL_DIR to the installation path.

WARNING: Python version 2 (2.7.5 or later) is required to build QtWebEngine.

WARNING: QtWebEngine will not be built.

WARNING: QtPdf will not be built.

Toolchain versions

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW32 /c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/bin
$ which gcc
/c/SysGCC/mingw32/bin/gcc

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW32 /c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/bin
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\SysGCC\mingw32\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=C:/SysGCC/mingw32/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-8.1.0/configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 --with-sysroot=/c/mingw810/i686-810-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32 --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-threads=posix --enable-libgomp --enable-libatomic --enable-lto --enable-graphite --enable-checking=release --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-bootstrap --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-symvers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-arch=i686 --with-tune=generic --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpfr=/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpc=/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-isl=/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-pkgversion='i686-posix-dwarf-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project' --with-bugurl=https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -fno-ident -I/c/mingw810/i686-810-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -fno-ident -I/c/mingw810/i686-810-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CPPFLAGS=' -I/c/mingw810/i686-810-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' LDFLAGS='-pipe -fno-ident -L/c/mingw810/i686-810-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32/opt/lib -L/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/lib -L/c/mingw810/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/lib -Wl,--large-address-aware'
Thread model: posix
gcc version 8.1.0 (i686-posix-dwarf-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project)

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW32 /c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/bin
$ which arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
/c/SysGCC/Raspberry/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW32 /c/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/bin
$ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\SysGCC\Raspberry\bin\arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/sysgcc/raspberry/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/8/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: arm-linux-gnueabihf
Configured with: ../../src/gcc-8-8.3.0/src/configure --with-pkgversion='Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1' --enable-languages=c,c++,lto --with-gcc-major-version-only --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libitm --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-arch=armv6 --with-fpu=vfp --with-float=hard --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-sysroot=/mnt/f/gnu/raspberry-buster/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix /mnt/f/gnu/raspberry-buster/out/ --disable-nls
Thread model: posix
gcc version 8.3.0 (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1)

Thanks for your time,
Andy

[svcguy]

So, I tried again. I blew up the build folder and installed mingw64 (8.1.0-1-202004170606x86_64-8.1.0-release-posix-seh-rt_v6-rev0) and installed the same MSYS2 version into its folder and reran the configure and make and got a similar error:

'C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe' --generate-qmltypes=plugins.qmltypes --import-name=QtTest --major-version=1 --minor-version=15 --foreign-types=C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quicktest_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quick_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5widgets_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5gui_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qmlmodels_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qml_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5network_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5test_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5core_metatypes.json --dependencies=C:/SysGCC/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.0/qtdeclarative/src/imports/testlib/dependencies.json -o qmltestplugin_qmltyperegistrations.cpp qmltestplugin_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\lib\metatypes\qt5quicktest_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\lib\metatypes\qt5quick_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5widgets_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5gui_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\lib\metatypes\qt5qmlmodels_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\lib\metatypes\qt5qml_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5network_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5test_metatypes.json
Cannot open foreign types file C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5core_metatypes.json

I almost missed but it looks as if the file name/path is getting messed up:

C;C:\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\SysGCC\raspberry\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\SysGCC\mingw64\msys2\usr\local\qt5\lib\metatypes\qt5core_metatypes.json

Is this a bug in qmltyperegistrar ,or a Makefile issue, or something completely different?

[svcguy]

Running the command again directly from the MSYS shell gives that 'bad address' failure:

svcgu@SURFACE MINGW64 /c/SysGCC/qt-build
#  'C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe' --generate-qmltypes=plugins.qmltypes --import-name=QtTest --major-version=1 --minor-version=15 --foreign-types=C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quicktest_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5quick_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5widgets_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5gui_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qmlmodels_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/qt-build/qtdeclarative/lib/metatypes/qt5qml_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5network_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5test_metatypes.json,C:/SysGCC/raspberry/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/SysGCC/mingw64/msys2/usr/local/qt5/lib/metatypes/qt5core_metatypes.json --dependencies=C:/SysGCC/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.0/qtdeclarative/src/imports/testlib/dependencies.json -o qmltestplugin_qmltyperegistrations.cpp qmltestplugin_metatypes.json
-bash: C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtdeclarative\bin\qmltyperegistrar.exe: Bad address

[svcguy]

After some research, I learned its much better to build Qt on Windows through a native Windows command prompt. After switching to PowerShell, I can progress much further into the build.

I'm now having issues specifically with the QtLocation module. I'm currently getting the following error when trying to build QtLocation:

cd location\ && ( if not exist Makefile C:\SysGCC\qt-build\qtbase\bin\qmake.exe -o Makefile C:\SysGCC\qt5\qtlocation\src\location\location.pro ) && C:/SysGCC/mingw32/bin/mingw32-make -f Makefile
Project ERROR: Could not find feature location-labs-plugin.
mingw32-make: *** [Makefile:181: sub-location-make_first] Error 3

It appears that the source tree \qtlocation\src\imports folder contains a locationlabs folder but it isn't getting built as the shadow build folder \qtlocation\src has no imports subfolder and the Makefile makes no mention of it.

Anyone able to help with this error?

[Brecht Sanders]

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