Qt Creator Kit for BeagleBone Black (Debian 9)

bigguiness

Hello all,

I recently got a new laptop and wanted to setup Qt to be able to cross-compile a program for use on a BeagleBone Black running Debian 9.

Currently I have to compile the app on the BeagleBone Black directly and it takes a couple hours. I also compile the app for Windows on my laptop (in a couple minutes).

The way I am doing it now works it's just a pain to test changes on the BeagleBone. Right now I end up testing everything in Windows then when I think it's ready I do the BeagleBone compile so I can test it there.

Is this even possible? Seems like it should be since Qt Creator appears to support cross-compiling for Android.

It it matters, here is some information from the Debian image I am running on the BeagleBone:

$ cat /etc/dogtag
BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2018-01-21
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch)
Release:        9.13
Codename:       stretch
$ uname -a
Linux G5-HMI 4.9.105-ti-r114 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 17 11:05:53 UTC 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
$ qmake --version
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.7.1 in /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf

On the BeagleBone the only packages I needed, other than the build-essentials, were:

qt5-default qtbase5-dev libqt5svg5-dev

If any other information is needed I will try to provide it.

Thanks

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You need to setup your Windows machine for cross-compilation and then cross-compile Qt for your target.

Doing it on Linux is usually way easier.
Maybe WSL2 may allow you to do that as well.