Qmake library path for arm project

user100

I'm using qmake 2.01a and Qt 4.8.4 on a x86 Linux host. I'm having an issue unsetting the default library path when making a bin for an arm target.

qmake adds -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu to the link command even if I override it using LIBS = in the .pro

I also was not able to remove the default qmake -unset QT_INSTALL_LIBS

Below is part of my .pro project file.

LIBS = -L/arm/libs

QMAKE_CC = /arm/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
QMAKE_CXX = /arm/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin/arm-none-eabi-g++
QMAKE_LINK = /arm/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin/arm-none-eabi-ld
QMAKE_AR_CMD = /arm/gcc-arm-none-eabi/bin/arm-none-eabi-ar

QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG += -std=c99
QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE += -std=c99

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Are you trying to cross-compile your application using your x86 Qt qmake ?

user100

Yes, I'm trying to build a binary for an arm Cortex device and running the development environment on x86 Mint.

SGaist

Did you first cross-compile Qt ?

Without that you won't be able to cross-compile your application. Using your x86 qmake won't allow you to build an ARM application, you have to use the one from the ARM Qt

user100

I'm confused. qmake has dependencies on Qt?

My target application won't have any dependancies on Qt.

qmake seems to work fine other than I can't get it to drop the reference to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu when linking.

SGaist

Indeed it has, qmake is the first thing built when building Qt.

It's because you are using your system qmake which is configured to use your system build tools.

You would at least need to tell it which mkspec to use (however I can't guarantee that i'll work without a glitch since I have always used qmake from my cross-compiled Qt when working on ARM code)

user100

I don't understand why paths would be compiled into qmake, doesn't that make it much less flexible?

It seems I may not be able to used qmake

Thanks for your help.

SGaist

AFAIK it's so because then you don't need to mess around with your system to build a Qt project. But you can modify the paths qmake uses using e.g. qt.conf.

However you didn't answer my question: did you already cross-compile Qt ?

Haresh

Can you please explain procedure to cross compile QT4.8 for arm.????

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

There's already explanations in Qt's documentation. Note that ARM is a processor architecture. Depending on what target board you are using, little things might change.