Talk:RaspberryPi2EGLFS

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small fix to the relativelink fixing script

The script relinks also systemd files pointing to /dev/null. Although this does not break anything currently, here is a fix Copy the following and paste to shell in the directory where the sysroot-relativelinks.py is

patch <<'EOF'
*** sysroot-relativelinks.py~	Fri Apr 28 09:50:57 2017
--- sysroot-relativelinks.py	Fri Apr 28 10:56:27 2017
***************
*** 18,23 ****
--- 18,25 ----
          return
      if link.startswith(topdir):
          return
+     if link.startswith("/dev/"):
+         return
      #print("Replacing %s with %s for %s" % (link, topdir+link, filep))
      print("Replacing %s with %s for %s" % (link, os.path.relpath(topdir+link, subdir), filep))
      os.unlink(filep)
EOF

Ansible Roles/Playbooks Based on this Article

I used the instructions here to make Ansible playbooks that perform most of the same steps. The playbooks can set up a Pi, set up a development computer, and then deploy Qt to the Pi. Repo is https://bitbucket.org/johnwoltman/build_qt_for_pi_with_ansible

Minor improvement to step 8

You can combine all 5 commands into one like this:

rsync -avzR pi@raspberrypi.local:/lib :/usr/include :/usr/lib :/opt/vc sysroot

Note that -R preserves the path names and that rsync creates the ./sysroot directory for us.

Hi I have Ubuntu 16.04 x64 and Qt Creator 5.10.1 x64 witch version of qt base should I choose? for compile on raspberry pi 3 with Raspbian stretch x32 OS?

Recommended changes to Step #15

Just including the line:

  ./qopenglwidget

So that way beginners (like me) know what to do to get it running.

Suggestion of changes to step 14

Make sure you're in "/home/pi" aka "~" when you run these commands:

(This would have saved me an hour...)

Cross compilation on 64bit machines TIP

Hi. When You try to build QT on 64 bit PC without i386 libraries, use:

  ~/raspi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-

Recommended changes to Step #4

Honestly, `sudo rpi-update` should only be used by Raspbian developers to the firmware or operating system itself; it pulls from the `next` branch which is usually unstable. At times, it will brick your Raspi.

Please change this to read `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade`. This will upgrade the operating system and yes, the firmware as well. It will pull from the stable `master` branch as expected.

error: undefined reference to `__cxa_throw_bad_array_new_length@CXXABI_1.3.8'

When try to build QT Creator app got an error: raspi/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libicui18n.so.57:-1: error: undefined reference to `__cxa_throw_bad_array_new_length@CXXABI_1.3.8'

after some exploration add following line to .pro file: QMAKE_LFLAGS += -fuse-ld=gold

Now its ok.

Add section about changed library names

See this (part 6). I cite: "In new Raspbian stretch versions, EGL libraries have different names than those assumed in Qt configuration files, so edit the ./qtbase/mkspecs/devices/linux-rasp-pi*-g++/qmake.conf file and substitute all references to -lEGL and -LGLESv2 for -lbrcmEGL and -lbrcmGLESv2, respectively." (linux-rasp-pi*-g++ refers to the board you're using).

Broken 'link' in Step 5 (part 2)

The qt4-x11 library has depreciated and is no longer available.