Installing Qt 4.8 for Phytec-Wega (embedded linux) board (arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf cross-compiler)

[branko]

I have a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (within VirtualBox). I have already installed basic Qt from online installer (qt 5.x). Now I want to install also qt 4.8 from source since there is already such a runtime on phytec device. I'd like to test first cross-compiled app to transfer to the device and successfully run it. I already manged it without any error for using default ./config (without any parameters), and make, and make install. I could run it on the host linux but on the device there was an error upon executing saying something like: unexpected ")" in line 2. Now, what happens trying to install embedded version of the qt4.8:

First, I used these parameters for qt 4.8 configuration (within the root folder of the unpacked qt 4.8):
sudo ./configure -v -xplatform qws/linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ -embedded arm -little-endian -host-big-endian -prefix /home/phytec/qt4.8-arm
And it doesn't fail (no error).

Second, using
sudo make
it returns:
make[1]: arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++: Command not found
make[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstractanimation.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/branko/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/src/corelib'
make: *** [sub-corelib-make_default-ordered] Error 2

What else have I done?
I used arm-cortesa8-linux-gnueabihf cross compiler as suggested from Phytec (although we have PD13.0.0, and it was taken from PD14.0.0 folder).
I appended into profile under /etc
export PATH=$PATH:/home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin
export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf- # COULD THIS BE A PROBLEM !?

Then I changed that withing qmake.conf (mkspecs/qws/linux-arm-gnueabi-g++/)
QMAKE_CC = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
QMAKE_CXX = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++
QMAKE_LINK = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++
QMAKE_LINK_SHLIB = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++

modifications to linux.conf

QMAKE_AR = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-ar cqs
QMAKE_OBJCOPY = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy
QMAKE_STRIP = arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-strip
In the first try I used in all six lines without "hf" (so only gnueabi)

I was using make clean and then make confclean trying different possibilities.

So, pls help. What was wrong?
Thnx in advance
Branko

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Looks like you don't have your cross-compiler in your PATH. So either update your PATH environment variable in e.g. your .profile file or give the full path to it in your mkspec

Hope it helps

[branko]

Thanks for the hint, SGaist.

I finally tried to run it (the cross-compiler) manually without parameters and it responded as there is no such file or directory.

And the reason is I try to execute 32-bit executable on the 64-bit Ubuntu (file ... command showed it). I installed support for 32-bit runtime on a 64-bit Ubuntu and now it is recognised as an executable. Although I will see what happens with a qt 4.8 installation.

I'll let you know.

[branko]

After I used absolute paths in qmake.conf (as QMAKE_CXX = /home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++ etc.) I don't get previous error any more (that the cross compiler file is missing).

Now I get this error:
-lpthread -lm -ldl
.obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentiteratekernel.o: In function getticks()': qtconcurrentiteratekernel.cpp:(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to clock_gettime'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../../lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.6] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/branko/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/src/corelib'
make: *** [sub-corelib-make_default-ordered] Error 2

What could be the reason for this?

Thanks,
Branko

[branko]

Just to clarify the solution to previous error. I had to install the support for running 32-bit on 64-bit Ubuntu.

[branko]

But I am still looking for the solution the the last error:
undefined reference to "clock-gettime ..." Have a look above!

[branko]

This was put out before the error:

rm -f libQtCore.so.4.8.6 libQtCore.so libQtCore.so.4 libQtCore.so.4.8
/home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/branko/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/lib -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-e,qt_core_boilerplate -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-rpath,/home/phytec/qt4.8-arm/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/phytec/qt4.8-arm/lib -shared -Wl,-soname,libQtCore.so.4 -o libQtCore.so.4.8.6 .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstractanimation.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qvariantanimation.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qpropertyanimation.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qanimationgroup.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsequentialanimationgroup.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qparallelanimationgroup.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qpauseanimation.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qatomic_arm.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfuture.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfutureinterface.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfuturesynchronizer.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfuturewatcher.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qrunnable.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentfilter.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentmap.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentresultstore.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentthreadengine.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentiteratekernel.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtconcurrentexception.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qthreadpool.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qglobal.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qlibraryinfo.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmalloc.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qnumeric.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qatomic.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmutex.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qreadwritelock.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmutexpool.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsemaphore.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qthread.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qthreadstorage.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmutex_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qthread_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qwaitcondition_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qbitarray.o 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.obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qurl.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsettings.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfsfileengine.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfsfileengine_iterator.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemwatcher.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystementry.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemengine.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfsfileengine_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemengine_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qprocess_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemiterator_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemwatcher_inotify.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfilesystemwatcher_dnotify.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qpluginloader.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfactoryloader.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/quuid.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qlibrary.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qelfparser_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qlibrary_unix.o

[branko]

.obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstracteventdispatcher.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstractitemmodel.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qbasictimer.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qeventloop.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qcoreapplication.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qcoreevent.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmetaobject.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmetatype.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmimedata.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qobject.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qobjectcleanuphandler.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsignalmapper.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsocketnotifier.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtimer.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtranslator.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qvariant.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qcoreglobaldata.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsharedmemory.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsystemsemaphore.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qpointer.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qmath.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsystemerror.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qcore_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qcrashhandler.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsharedmemory_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsystemsemaphore_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qeventdispatcher_unix.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qisciicodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qlatincodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsimplecodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtextcodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtsciicodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qutfcodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qtextcodecplugin.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfontlaocodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qgb18030codec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qjpunicode.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qeucjpcodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qjiscodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsjiscodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qeuckrcodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qbig5codec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfontjpcodec.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qstatemachine.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstractstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qfinalstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qhistorystate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qabstracttransition.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qsignaltransition.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qeventtransition.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qxmlstream.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/qxmlutils.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qabstractanimation_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfuturewatcher.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qthreadpool.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qnamespace.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qthread.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qeasingcurve.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qlocale.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qtimeline.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfile.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qiodevice.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qnoncontiguousbytedevice_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qtemporaryfile.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qsettings.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfilesystemwatcher_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfilesystemwatcher_inotify_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfilesystemwatcher_dnotify_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qpluginloader.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qlibrary.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfactoryloader_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qabstracteventdispatcher.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qabstractitemmodel.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qeventloop.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qcoreapplication.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qcoreevent.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qmimedata.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qsocketnotifier.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qtimer.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qtranslator.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qobjectcleanuphandler.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qsharedmemory.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qeventdispatcher_unix_p.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qtextcodecplugin.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qabstractstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qfinalstate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qhistorystate.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qabstracttransition.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qsignaltransition.o .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/moc_qeventtransition.o -L/home/branko/Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/lib -lpthread -lm -ldl

[SGaist]

Which version of libc are you linking to ?

[branko]

I'm not quite sure if I know what you are asking ...

ldd --version says 2.19
That confirms also the test program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
int main (void) { puts (gnu_get_libc_version ()); return 0; }
And a g++ compiler has the version: 4.8.2 (g++ --version)

If you mean cross-compiler (arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++):
The cross-compiler's version is (arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++ --version): 4.7.3
arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++ (OSELAS.Toolchain-2012.12.1 linaro-4.7-2012.11) 4.7.3 20121106 (prerelease)

on >> arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -print-libgcc-file-name << I get:
/home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/4.7.3/libgcc.a

[branko]

I don't know how to get the version of the cross compiler's libc.
ldd doesn't return it as it doesn't recognise it as a suitable librarey:

/home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/4.7.3/libgcc.a
returns:
/home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/4.7.3/libgcc.a: command not found

ldd /home/branko/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-cortexa8-linux-gnueabihf/4.7.3/libgcc.a
says
not a dynamic executable

Pls guys, help
Branko