GCC Error During Cross Compile Setup

[Steve Mansfield]

I have been working this problem for more than a week. I installed QT off the QT site. I am trying to set up a cross compile environment for a Beaglebone Black ARM 8 platform. I have set up the compiler options using GNU 6.3.0 compiler. I successfully created the cross-compile environment and the Beaglebone device. The connect test worked correctly as well. When I build the default QT simple application I get these errors,

Running Windows Runtime device detection.
C:/Qt/5.11.0/winrt_armv7_msvc2015/bin/winrtrunner.exe --list-devices
Found 2 Windows Runtime devices.
Running "C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin\cmake.exe -E server "--pipe=\.\pipe{2e664e46-cacb-46ae-b680-ed9c235dc502}" --experimental" in C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Local\Temp\QtCreator-WLEKuI\qtc-cmake-IDzcFnnJ.
Starting to parse CMake project, using: "-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:STRING=C:/SysGCC/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe", "-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:STRING=C:/SysGCC/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe", "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:STRING=", "-DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:STRING=".
The C compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
The CXX compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
Check for working C compiler: C:/SysGCC/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe
Check for working C compiler: C:/SysGCC/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe -- broken
CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (message):
The C compiler

"C:/SysGCC/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe"

is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:

Change Dir: C:/Users/Stephen/AppData/Local/Temp/QtCreator-WLEKuI/qtc-cmake-IDzcFnnJ/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

Run Build Command:"C:/PROGRA~2/Ninja/ninja.exe" "cmTC_c3136"
[1/2] Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTC_c3136.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj
[2/2] Linking C executable cmTC_c3136.exe
FAILED: cmTC_c3136.exe 
cmd.exe /C "cd . && C:\SysGCC\beaglebone-6.3.0\bin\arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe    CMakeFiles/cmTC_c3136.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj  -o cmTC_c3136.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libcmTC_c3136.dll.a -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0   && cd ."
c:/sysgcc/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: unrecognized option '--major-image-version'
c:/sysgcc/beaglebone-6.3.0/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: use the --help option for usage information
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

The build seems to issues a command to the GCC compiler suite to an executable ld.exe '--major-image-version' and fails. ld.exe does not support --major-image-version. Not sure why it is issuing this command.

I know these compilers work as I have compiled manually a QT basic example using the g++ compiler. Any suggestions?

[ambershark]

@Steve-Mansfield Try setting this set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Generic) in your cmake toolchain file.

If it's set to Windows it will cause that issue you are seeing.