Platform Plugins what are the differences?
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I was doing some cross compiling of a Qt5.2 application for an ARM based target and it was failing to display anything on my platform. After doing some google'ing I found that if I launched it with:
./helloworld -platform eglfs
it would show up (full screen, but it worked)!I started looking at all the platform options:
android, eglfs, linuxfb, minimalegl, windows, xcb, cocoa, ios, offscreen, qnx, directfp, kms, minimal, openwfd and I'm wondering what they are for. I assume, for example, that if I wanted to run my application on an Android device I'd have to pass "-platform android", but they're not all obvious to me.Is there a listing anywhere of when each of these parameters should be used? For example, what does eglfs stand for? And why did I need to use that where as linuxfb didn't work? (I would have thought the linux frame buffer was how I wanted to launch my application since it was running on embedded linux)
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Hi,
android -> Android devices
windows -> Windows OS (XP to 8)
xcb -> Linux X11
cocoa -> OS X
ios -> iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod)
qnx -> qnx OS
eglfs -> GPU vendor EGL API implementation
directfb -> hardware accelerated linux frame buffer
openwfd -> open source WiFi Display
kms -> kernel mode setting (I might be wrong though)
minimal(egl) -> minimal implementationIIRC, there was a bug in the linuxfb plugin preventing him from being initialized correctly but I can't remember whether the fix got in for 5.2
Hope it helps
