Using taglib on a i.MX6

Raz3l

Hi guys!

So, on the application that I am developing for the couple weeks I need to use taglib library. All goes well when compiling it for the desktop. I follow some steps to be able to use taglib under debian. I just installed taglib and taglib-extras by apt-get package manager, and on my .pro file I add the following lines:

CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
PKGCONFIG += taglib taglib-extras

Until here everything went fine, but my end target it's an i.MX6 platform. I am using Yocto for building my Linux image and after searching for taglib recipes I found one, which I included in my local.conf file. After this I build again the Qt SDK by performing bitbake meta-toolchain-qt5 and I sourced the script created and I did the proper configurations on Qt Creator - Poky 2.1.1 (just I did before we the last SDK - poky 2.1).

Unfortunately, I can't compile my application and I am getting this error:

Starting: "/opt/poky/2.1.1/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/qt5/qmake" /home/hmi/workspace/my_projects/taglib/taglib.pro -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=debug CONFIG+=qml_debug
Project ERROR: taglib development package not found
16:03:26: The process "/opt/poky/2.1.1/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/qt5/qmake" exited with code 3.
Error while building/deploying project taglib (kit: iMX6 Qt5.6.2)
The kit iMX6 Qt5.6.2 has configuration issues which might be the root cause for this problem.
When executing step "qmake"

I know that I am missing some steps for using taglib in an embedded platform like i.MX6, but I am out of ideas. Any can help?

SGaist

Hi,

You need to build it through Poky as well. You can't use your desktop version of taglib to build against your application that will run on an ARM device.

Raz3l

Yes I understand that @SGaist , but my doubt is how should I then configure the .pro file to use taglib as a library. As I understand you are saying that I should build taglib though poky, right? Thank you for the help!

SGaist

Yes you should.

As for the .pro file, you can either test with pkg-link or use the classic method by point to the right place where the library is installed.

Raz3l

For future references, this is how I did it:
As I told above I was able to compile and use Taglib library on a desktop target. Moving for an embedded device such as an iMX6 was where the difficulties started to appear. I use Yocto as a Linux building system for my platform. For being able to use taglib and cross-compile an Qt/QML application using it I needed to:

Add to my local.conf taglib package.

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " qtbase 		\
        ...
	taglib zlib				\
        ...
	"

Bitbake my image

bitbake core-imag-base

Add to it's recipe (core-image-base.bb) an inherit statement which, as far I know, will populate my sysroot with much need Qt libraries.

inherit populate_sdk_qt5

Create the SDK, which will reflect to my cross compiling environment not just my target file system but also Qt libraries, since I did step 3.

bitbake core-image-base -c populate_sdk

After generating the sdk script I just had to follow the normal steps to create a Qt Kit on QtCreator.
On my .pro file of my application I added a new library dependency.

CONFIG+=target_platform_imx
#CONFIG+=target_platform_desktop

target_platform_imx {
    unix:!macx: LIBS += -L/opt/poky/2.1.1/sysroots/cortexa9hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib/ -ltag

    INCLUDEPATH += /opt/poky/2.1.1/sysroots/cortexa9hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/include
    DEPENDPATH += /opt/poky/2.1.1/sysroots/cortexa9hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/include

} else {

    target_platform_desktop
    {

        CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
        PKGCONFIG += taglib taglib-extras
    }
}

I should notice that I don't know if these are the correct steps to follow on Yocto, but still was able to accomplish my goal. If anyone has something to mention I am looking forward to ear it.
Thank you.

SGaist

Looks correct to me, note that you might even be able to do it with pkg-config if you get the matching .pc file in your poky sysroot.

Check here, I think it's worth trying.