Qt Creator Project Creation Errors

DCRobins

I am not sure if anyone was monitoring the [Solved] "qmake does not specify a valid Qt installation"
thread so I have reposted here. I have read the solutions provided in the thread and am having a hard time trying to figure out how to apply them to my situation.

I used apt-get to install QT Creator 1.3.1 (4.6.2) on my virtual Linux machine executing Ubuntu 10.04. No Qt source files remain on my system. So I cannot execute the .configure command. I have also installed the Sourcery codebench cross-compiler tools for ARM CORTEX A-8. I am getting the following two errors.

*Could not create ToolChain for ""
Qt Creator doesn't know about the system includes, nor the systems defines. *

When i do the qmake -query command I get the following:
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX:/usr
QT_INSTALL_DATA:/usr/share/qt4
QT_INSTALL_DOCS:/usr/share/qt4/doc
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS:/usr/include/qt4
QT_INSTALL_LIBS:/usr/lib
QT_INSTALL_BINS:/usr/bin
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS:/usr/lib/qt4/plugins
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS:/usr/share/qt4/translations
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION:/etc/xdg
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES:/usr/lib/qt4/examples
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS:/usr/lib/qt4/demos
QMAKE_MKSPECS:/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs
QMAKE_VERSION:2.01a
QT_VERSION:4.6.2

The CodeBench installation is located at /home/doug/CodeSourcery. The TI ARM SDK is located at /home/doug/ti-ezsdk_dm814x-evm_5_04_00_11 and contains a linux-devkit directory under which has a enviroment-setup file. The contents of this file is as follows:

SDK_PATH=/home/doug/ti-ezsdk_dm814x-evm_5_04_00_11/linux-devkit
if [ -z "$ZSH_NAME" ] && [ "x$0" = "x./environment-setup" ]; then
echo "Error: This script needs to be sourced. Please run as ". ./environment-setup""
exit 1
else
if [ -n "$BASH_SOURCE" ]; then
SDK_PATH=/home/doug/ti-ezsdk_dm814x-evm_5_04_00_11/linux-devkit
fi
SDK_PATH=/home/doug/ti-ezsdk_dm814x-evm_5_04_00_11/linux-devkit
export SDK_PATH
fi
export TOOLCHAIN_PATH=/home/doug/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/
export TARGET_SYS=arm-none-linux-gnueabi
export CC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
export CPP="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -E"
export NM=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-nm
export RANLIB=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib
export OBJCOPY=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-objcopy
export STRIP=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-strip
export AS=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-as
export AR=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ar
export OBJDUMP=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-objdump
export PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS=1
export PATH=$SDK_PATH/bin:$TOOLCHAIN_PATH/bin:$PATH
export CPATH=$SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS/usr/include:$CPATH
export LIBTOOL_SYSROOT_PATH=$SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS
export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=$SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS/usr/lib/pkgconfig
export CONFIG_SITE=$SDK_PATH/site-config
alias opkg="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SDK_PATH/lib $SDK_PATH/bin/opkg-cl -f $SDK_PATH/etc/opkg-sdk.conf -o $SDK_PATH"
alias opkg-target="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SDK_PATH/lib $SDK_PATH/bin/opkg-cl -f $SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS/etc/opkg.conf -o $SDK_PATH/$TARGET_SYS"
export CC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
export CPP="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -E"
export NM=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-nm
export RANLIB=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib
export OBJCOPY=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-objcopy
export STRIP=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-strip
export AS=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-as
export AR=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ar
export OBJDUMP=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-objdump
export PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS=1
export OE_QMAKE_CC=${TARGET_SYS}-gcc
export OE_QMAKE_CXX=${TARGET_SYS}-g++
export OE_QMAKE_LINK=${TARGET_SYS}-g++
export OE_QMAKE_AR=${TARGET_SYS}-ar
export OE_QMAKE_LIBDIR_QT=${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/lib
export OE_QMAKE_INCDIR_QT=${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/include/qtopia
export OE_QMAKE_MOC=${SDK_PATH}/bin/moc4
export OE_QMAKE_UIC=${SDK_PATH}/bin/uic4
export OE_QMAKE_UIC3=${SDK_PATH}/bin/uic34
export OE_QMAKE_RCC=${SDK_PATH}/bin/rcc4
export OE_QMAKE_QDBUSCPP2XML=${SDK_PATH}/bin/qdbuscpp2xml4
export OE_QMAKE_QDBUSXML2CPP=${SDK_PATH}/bin/qdbusxml2cpp4
export OE_QMAKE_QT_CONFIG=${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/share/qtopia/mkspecs/qconfig.pri
export QMAKESPEC=${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/share/qtopia/mkspecs/linux-g++
export OE_QMAKE_LDFLAGS="-L${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,${SDK_PATH}/${TARGET_SYS}/usr/lib -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
export OE_QMAKE_STRIP="echo"
export PS1="[\e[32;1m][linux-devkit][\e[0m]:\w> "

I am currently at a loss as to how to configure Qt creator to provide a cross-compiler target for the TI ARM. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

koahnig

You need to compile Qt libs with your ARM tool chain. As you noticed you need the "source which can be found in the archive":http://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/ for virtually any Qt version (some of the very early V1 are missing).

DCRobins

Thanks for you quick response. I apologize in advance for my ignorance but I am new to Qt and am still a vague on the details on what exactly needs to be re-compiled.

I installed QtCreator and Qt SDK using apt-get. It appears that packages QtCreator, QtSDK, libqt4-dev, libqt4-core, libqt4-gui, libqt4-xml, and libqt4-opengl have been installed.

I followed the link to the Qt downloads to the 4.6 directory. The Ubuntu Qt version 1.3.1 is based on the Qt 4.6.2 build (2010). There are debug libs but I do not see any entries identified specifically as QT libraries.

I can download the sources for ibqt4-dev, libqt4-core, libqt4-gui, libqt4-xml, and libqt4-opengl via apt-get. Are these the libraries you are referring to? Or have I totally missed the boat here?

Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

koahnig

The archive contains both the source as required for your compiling and also some of the pre-build versions. The naming for the source archive are for instance "qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4.tar.gz":http://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/4.8/4.8.4/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4.tar.gz , which would be the source archive of version 4.8.4 and the tar.gz is for linux. There are also .zip files, but they are meant for windows systems. AFAIK, the main difference are the line endings. However, it is always recommended to use the proper file for the operation system.

There are some guidelines in the wiki here for instance for compile for "an embedded platform on linux":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_for_Embedded_Linux which is what you are probably looking for. There are more different guideline in the wiki. You find those in the "howto section":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:HowTo

The source coming with a pre-build should not be used for building Qt libs. They are known to create problems. Therefore, the best is always to start with the fresh source structure from an archive,.

DCRobins

Thanks once again for your quick response.

I have downloaded the 4.8.4 tar file and extracted it. I followed the instructions from the link you provided. When I executed the configure command with the -embedded switch, it asked me for a license key.

I am not quite sure what I need to do from here? Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

koahnig

The question for the key comes when you have selected "commercial license" before. Withe commercial license you get a key you have to enter there.

If you like to use Qt libs under LGPL you have to select open source or add already "-opensource" in the configure command line.

tobias.hunger

Please update Qt Creator to something more recent. Latest released version of Qt Creator is 3.0 and we made so many improvements -- especially when it comes to working with cross-compilers!