[Buildroot] Qt on AM3517EVM

[Julian Lunz <git@jlunz.de>]

Hi Charles:

Glad to hear that you succeeded in building!

Since you're targeting a TI-chip, have a look at these links:
http://gpupowered.org/node/8
https://github.com/prabindh/qt-configs

For a Qt5 package, I'd wait a bit longer until it reaches final, current
release plan:

Beta : release expected by mid-July 2012
Final: release expected by September 2012

Julian


On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:44:49 -0700
Charles Krinke <charles.krinke@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Thomas:
> 
> Could you give us (me) a few pointers on the pre-requisite packages
> and the path to move along to get Qt5 put together for buildroot?
> Maybe with your guidance one of us can get at least partway down that
> path.
> 
> Charles
> 
> On 7/17/12, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> wrote:
> > Le Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:40:23 -0700,
> > Charles Krinke <charles.krinke@gmail.com> a ?crit :
> >
> >> First of all, +100 for Thomas, Arnout and Julian. This morning, I
> >> was able to load the jffs2 compiled file system from buildroot and
> >> run "ts_calibrate" and got a functioning touch screen and color
> >> LCD with Qt on the LogicPD AM3517EVM after *removing* the
> >> environment variable QMAKESPEC which the TI-SDK insisted on adding
> >> to my .bashrc.
> >
> > Great.
> >
> >> Of course, no sooner had I gotten it to work then my customer says
> >> "Thats cool, how about Qt5?"
> >>
> >> So, ... are we considering either a Qt5 bump or either Qt4/Qt5
> >> with an xconfig option?
> >
> > I think Qt5 needs a separate package from qt4, because many, many
> > things have changed in Qt5. Also Qt5 apparently requires an OpenGL
> > renderer, which wasn't the case in Qt4, so we will probably be
> > keeping Qt4 around for quite a while for low-end platforms.
> >
> > Anyone willing to work on packaging Qt5 is definitely more than
> > welcome to contribute such effort.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Thomas
> > --
> > Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> > Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> > development, consulting, training and support.
> > http://free-electrons.com
> >
> 
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