TIBeagleBoard
Qt on the BeagleBoard / BeagleBoard-xM
Hardware Specs
| BeagleBoard | BeagleBoard-xM | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ARMv7 | |
| RAM | 256MB | 512MB |
| OpenGL | OpenGL ES 2.0 | |
| Qt 5.0 (eglfs/QPA) | with OpenGL ES 2.0 |
Device Information / Hardware
The BeagleBoard is an OMAP3530 platform for Open Source Community.
Software provided by Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments provides the Linux Digital Video Software Development Kit (DVSDK). You can download it from [1] (registration required).
Or you can use Ångström [angstrom-distribution.org]. If you would like to build Ångström environment by yourself, you should build “<tt>libgles-omap3</tt>” package for OpenGL ES. If you would like to download the SDK from online builder ( Narcissus [narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org]), you should check “<tt>PowerVR SGX drivers for OMAP3</tt>”.
Preparing environments for Qt
Both of Building Ångström and Using Narcissus are tested on March 20, 2012 on Ubuntu 10.04.
Building Ångström
Please see also Building Ångström [angstrom-distribution.org].
PATH of toolchain is build/tmp-angstrom_2010_x-eglibc/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi
PATH of sysroot is build/tmp-angstrom_2010_x-eglibc/sysroots/beagleboard/
It’s tested using below repositories.
Tested Repositories
| Repository | Branch:Revision |
|---|---|
| setup-scripts | master:4ac1e500a77eeb418195d11a1d3740e21190c291 |
| meta-angstrom | master:51ba0dd081af1d7de56ffc9fb318044bc3c7c47e |
| meta-initramfs | master:5b3974ed483418b206678acca7414b81bcf749a7 |
| meta-opie | master:efa3892b20a4ef80274e56e5633ebd62c16f9731 |
| meta-java | master:e90110b85733f9cdda26861bc29588257173c11c |
| meta-ti | master:ed29286f2b16b48206ba788f790c1082c7724bb0 |
| meta-efikamx | master:2c09a3a780b23448e8a6ca964256ff7f5ccba65d |
| meta-nslu2 | master:3d9fc951b05b4df476374b6fc3085ebac7f293ee |
| meta-palm | master:947bcbbb3214fdc5f51962a84587600933a75be6 |
| meta-handheld | master:fa1e6dcb524eb7ed29a6cd971a150d35c31e96e7 |
| meta-n450 | master:d9132cc66316be45f44beeea6eba734bb3ab337d |
| meta | master:d7b8c247227f3cc82f92292407f548927e9fde78 |
Using Narcissus(Online Builder)
- Visit to http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org.
- Select Options. (ex.)
- Base settings:
- Select the machine you want to build your rootfs image for
- “beagleboard”
- Choose the complexity of the options below.
- “advanced”
- Advanced settings:
- Select the release you want to base your rootfs image on.
- “2011.03”
- SDK type
- “full SDK for generated filesystem”
- User environment selection
- “Console only”
- Additional packages selection:
- Texas Instruments OMAP3x/AM3x family
-
- Bootloader Files (x-load/u-boot/scripts)
- PowerVR SGX drivers for OMAP3
- Click “Build me!”
- Download the SDK and rootfs archives.
- extract SDK archive to /
PATH of toolchain is /usr/local/angstrom/arm/bin/
PATH of sysroot is /usr/local/angstrom/arm/
Qt5 eglfs/QPA
Preparing mkspecs
Adjust the qmake.conf of the linux-omap3430-g++ mkspec to fit your crosscompiler toolchain and sysroot.
Building Qt
This will build everything in-source, if you want to build out-of-source execute configure and qmake for additional modules from within a separate empty folder.