Raspberry Pi 3 Compile with X11 (EGLF not wanted)

d.sully

So I have been trying to cross-compile QT for my Pi3 running the latest Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) for the past 2 days and so far I only seem to be able to get ELGFS to work...which I do not want! I want to be able to run GUI applications running on X11. I have been following this guide "http://wiki.qt.io/RaspberryPi2EGLFS" trying to leave out the EGLFS stuff. Please give me some help here as I am pulling my hair out at this point. I have tried QT versions 5.5, 5.6, and 5.9.1, they all end up with "EGL on X ........... no" and there error is here:

EGL-X11 auto-detection... ()
/home/psyc/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -c -pipe -march=armv7-a -marm -mthumb-interwork -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a7 -mabi=aapcs-linux -mfloat-abi=hard --sysroot=/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot -O2 -Wall -W -fPIC  -I. -I/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot/opt/vc/include -I/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads -I/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot/opt/vc/include/interface/vmcs_host/linux -I../../../mkspecs/devices/linux-rasp-pi2-g++ -o egl-x11.o egl-x11.cpp
In file included from egl-x11.cpp:34:0:
egl-x11.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot/opt/vc/include/EGL/egl.h:68:54: error: invalid conversion from ‘EGLNativeDisplayType {aka void*}’ to ‘Display* {aka _XDisplay*}’ [-fpermissive]
 #define EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY  ((EGLNativeDisplayType)0)
                                                      ^
egl-x11.cpp:47:20: note: in expansion of macro ‘EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY’
     Display *dpy = EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY;
                    ^
egl-x11.cpp:49:9: error: invalid conversion from ‘EGLNativeDisplayType {aka void*}’ to ‘Display* {aka _XDisplay*}’ [-fpermissive]
     dpy = egldpy;
         ^
egl-x11.cpp:50:79: error: invalid conversion from ‘Window {aka long unsigned int}’ to ‘EGLNativeWindowType {aka void*}’ [-fpermissive]
     EGLNativeWindowType w = XCreateWindow(dpy, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
                                                                               ^
egl-x11.cpp:51:26: error: invalid conversion from ‘EGLNativeWindowType {aka void*}’ to ‘Window {aka long unsigned int}’ [-fpermissive]
     XDestroyWindow(dpy, w);
                          ^
In file included from egl-x11.cpp:36:0:
/home/psyc/raspi/sysroot/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:2243:12: error:   initializing argument 2 of ‘int XDestroyWindow(Display*, Window)’ [-fpermissive]
 extern int XDestroyWindow(
            ^
Makefile:266: recipe for target 'egl-x11.o' failed
make: *** [egl-x11.o] Error 1
EGL-X11 disabled.

The basic configuration I have been using looks something like this: ./configure -release -opengl es2 -qt-xcb -system-xcb -system-xkbcommon -nomake tests -nomake examples -device linux-rasp-pi2-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=~/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -sysroot ~/raspi/sysroot -opensource -confirm-license -make libs -prefix /usr/local/qt5pi -extprefix ~/raspi/qt5pi -hostprefix ~/raspi/qt5 -v

Build options:
  Configuration .......... accessibility accessibility-atspi-bridge audio-backend c++11 clock-gettime clock-monotonic compile_examples concurrent cross_compile cups dbus egl eglfs eglfs_brcm enable_new_dtags evdev eventfd fontconfig full-config getaddrinfo getifaddrs glib harfbuzz iconv inotify ipv6ifname large-config largefile libinput libudev linuxfb medium-config minimal-config mremap mtdev neon nis opengl opengles2 openssl openvg png posix_fallocate precompile_header pulseaudio qpa qpa reduce_exports release rpath shared small-config system-freetype system-jpeg system-png system-zlib tslib use_gold_linker xcb xcb-glx xcb-plugin xcb-render xcb-xlib xinput2 xkbcommon-evdev xkbcommon-qt xlib xrender 
  Build parts ............  libs
  Mode ................... release
  Using sanitizer(s)...... none
  Using C++11 ............ yes
  Using gold linker....... yes
  Using new DTAGS ........ yes
  Using PCH .............. yes
  Target compiler supports:
    Neon ................. yes

Qt modules and options:
  Qt D-Bus ............... yes (loading dbus-1 at runtime)
  Qt Concurrent .......... yes
  Qt GUI ................. yes
  Qt Widgets ............. yes
  Large File ............. yes
  QML debugging .......... yes
  Use system proxies ..... no

Support enabled for:
  Accessibility .......... yes
  ALSA ................... no
  CUPS ................... yes
  Evdev .................. yes
  FontConfig ............. yes
  FreeType ............... yes (system library)
  Glib ................... yes
  GStreamer .............. no
  GTK theme .............. no
  HarfBuzz ............... yes (bundled copy)
  Iconv .................. yes
  ICU .................... no
  Image formats: 
    GIF .................. yes (plugin, using bundled copy)
    JPEG ................. yes (plugin, using system library)
    PNG .................. yes (in QtGui, using system library)
  journald ............... no
  libinput................ yes
  mtdev .................. yes (system library)
  Networking: 
    getaddrinfo .......... yes
    getifaddrs ........... yes
    IPv6 ifname .......... yes
    libproxy.............. no
    OpenSSL .............. yes (loading libraries at run-time)
  NIS .................... yes
  OpenGL / OpenVG: 
    EGL .................. yes
    OpenGL ............... yes (OpenGL ES 2.0+)
    OpenVG ............... yes-auto
  PCRE ................... system
  pkg-config ............. yes 
  PulseAudio ............. yes
  QPA backends: 
    DirectFB ............. no
    EGLFS ................ yes
      EGLFS i.MX6....... . no
      EGLFS KMS .......... no
      EGLFS Mali ......... no
      EGLFS Raspberry Pi . yes
      EGLFS X11 .......... no
    LinuxFB .............. yes
    XCB .................. yes (system library)
      EGL on X ........... no
      GLX ................ yes
      MIT-SHM ............ yes
      Xcb-Xlib ........... yes
      Xcursor ............ yes (loaded at runtime)
      Xfixes ............. yes (loaded at runtime)
      Xi ................. no
      Xi2 ................ yes
      Xinerama ........... yes (loaded at runtime)
      Xrandr ............. yes (loaded at runtime)
      Xrender ............ yes
      XKB ................ no
      XShape ............. yes
      XSync .............. yes
      XVideo ............. yes
  Session management ..... yes
  SQL drivers: 
    DB2 .................. no
    InterBase ............ no
    MySQL ................ no
    OCI .................. no
    ODBC ................. yes (plugin)
    PostgreSQL ........... no
    SQLite 2 ............. yes (plugin)
    SQLite ............... yes (plugin, using bundled copy)
    TDS .................. yes (plugin)
  tslib .................. yes
  udev ................... yes
  xkbcommon-x11........... yes (bundled copy, XKB config root: /usr/share/X11/xkb)
  xkbcommon-evdev......... yes
  zlib ................... yes (system library)


NOTE: Qt is using double for qreal on this system. This is binary incompatible against Qt 5.1.
Configure with '-qreal float' to create a build that is binary compatible with 5.1.

Qt is now configured for building. Just run 'make'.
Once everything is built, you must run 'make install'.
Qt will be installed into /usr/local/qt5pi

Prior to reconfiguration, make sure you remove any leftovers from
the previous build.

Thanks for any help you can give.

mrjj

Hi and welcome
Maybe you can just use these ?
http://www.qtrpi.com/home

d.sully

@mrjj just tried, gives me the same results as when I compile myself. EGLF is the only thing that works.
platform minimalegl gives:

Opened display 0x1

Initialized display 1 4

Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x300b

EGL error

xcb gives:

QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags(), depthBufferSize 24, redBufferSize -1, greenBufferSize -1, blueBufferSize -1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize 8, samples -1, swapBehavior 2, swapInterval 1, profile  0)

minimal and linuxfb give:

This plugin does not support createPlatformOpenGLContext!
Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags(), depthBufferSize 24, redBufferSize -1, greenBufferSize -1, blueBufferSize -1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize 8, samples -1, swapBehavior 2, swapInterval 1, profile  0)

So what is the problem here?

d.sully

Turns out the raspberry pi 2 qmake.conf file in qtbase/mkspecs/devices/linux-rasp-pi2-g++ actually tries to force EGLFS. After replacing that config with the one below I finally got: "EGL on X ........... yes" and now my application is happily running windowed on my Pi.
config was:

./configure -release -no-eglfs -qt-xcb -xcb -nomake tests -nomake examples -skip qtscript -skip qtwebkit -skip qtwebengine -device linux-rasp-pi2-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=~/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- -sysroot ~/raspi/sysroot -opensource -confirm-license -make libs -prefix /usr/local/qt5pi -extprefix ~/raspi/qt5pi -hostprefix ~/raspi/qt5 -v

qmake.conf:

# qmake configuration for the Raspberry Pi 2(no EGLFS)

include(../common/linux_device_pre.conf)

QMAKE_LFLAGS           += -Wl,-rpath-link,$$[QT_SYSROOT]/opt/vc/lib

QMAKE_CFLAGS += -march=armv7-a -marm -mthumb-interwork -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a7 -mabi=aapcs-linux
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS          = $$QMAKE_CFLAGS

DISTRO_OPTS += hard-float

QT_QPA_DEFAULT_PLATFORM = xcb

include(../common/linux_arm_device_post.conf)

load(qt_config)

maitai_vw

@d.sully Thanks very much for sharing that, I was stuck exactly at same point. Your solution works perfectly.
Just a small question in case you know: my app runs perfectly if I run it directly from the rpi3 but if I try to launch it from QtCreator on my linux machine I get this message:
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Could not connect to any X display.
I can survive without being able to launch/debug in creator but in case someone knows a solution...

Thanks again
Philippe

Ivan_v

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Ivan_v

@d.sully

Thank you very much for this information. It's been really usefull. I've been able to compile the libraries and a small Quick Controls 2 sample windowed. But, for me, it seems to be a bit slow. I'm using the MESA drivers since. Is there an alternative or a solution for this.

Again, thanks.

Regards,
Ivan