Adeneo Embedded: Building Qt 5.1 for Freescale i.MX6Introduction on LTIB
Adeneo Embedded: Building Qt 5.1 for Freescale i.MX6Introduction
Currently there is not an easy procedure to build Qt 5.1 with hardware acceleration support for Freescale i.MX6 platform. This document describes the steps necessary to download all the prerequisite oftware, build Qt 5.1 code and examples, and verify the hardware acceleration support status.
Required Software
1. To start building, we need some development tools. This build is verified on LTIB (L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source.tar.gz downloaded from FreeScale website) and cross-compiled on a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit PC. Verify that gpu-viv-bin-mx6q option is enabled in the LTIB configuration.
$ mkdir -p ~/BSP
$ cd ~/BSP
$ tar -xzvf L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source.tar.gz
2. Download Qt 5.1.1 source code from the Qt-project website. Create a build directory and extract the content in it.
$ mkdir -p ~/Qt5
$ cd ~/Qt5
$ tar -xJvf qtbase-opensource-src-5.1.1.tar.xz
Build procedure:
1. Enter the Qt5 build directory and create a configuration script as follows:
$ cd ~/Qt5/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.1/qtbase
$ vi config.imx6
#!/bin/sh
./configure -opensource -confirm-license -make libs -device imx6 \
-device-option CROSS_COMPILE=\
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.6.2-glibc-2.13-linaro-multilib-2011.12/fsl-linaro-toolchain/bin/arm-fsl-linux-gnueabi- \
-no-pch -no-opengl -no-icu
-no-c++11 \
-opengl es2 \
-eglfs \
-compile-examples \
2. Edit the device configuration to specify the root file system of the BSP. Make sure the config file contains lines that match with what lists below
$ cd ~/Qt5/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.1/qtbase/mkspecs/devices/linux-imx6-g++
$ vi qmake.conf
ROOTFS=/home/trainee/BSP/L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source/ltib/rootfs
QMAKE_INCDIR += $$ROOTFS/usr/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR += $$ROOTFS/usr/lib
QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl,-rpath-link,$$ROOTFS/usr/lib
3. Run the configuration script and make sure that Qt5 has openGL ES 2.0 support when it is complete. Note that you must run 'make confclean' to remove the previous configuration when any hanges are made to the script.
$ ./config.imx6
This is the Qt Open Source Edition.
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL) versions 2.1.
You have already accepted the terms of the license.
Creating qmake...
….
….
Support enabled for:
Accessibility .......... yes
….
OpenGL .................. yes (OpenGL ES 2.x)
….
Qt is now configured for building. Just run 'make'.
Once everything is built, you must run 'make install'.
Qt will be installed into /home/trainee/BSP/L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source/ltib/rootfs/usr/local/Qt5.1.1
Prior to reconfiguration, make sure you remove any leftovers from
the previous build.
4. Do a build. Note that all the libraries are copied to the appropriate directories in the root file system.
$ make all -j8
$INSTALL_ROOT=/home/trainee/BSP/L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source/ltib/rootfs/ sudo
make install
5. Build the examples
$ cd examples
$ make
6. Copy an example (hellogl_es2) used to demonstrate openGL ES to the root file system.
$ sudo cp opengl/hellogl_es2/hellogl_es2
/home/trainee/BSP/L3.0.35_4.0.0_130424_source/ltib/rootfs/
Verify h/w acceleration support:
1. Boot the board and verify that the galcore module is installed
$ cat /proc/devices | grep galcore
$ ls /dev/galcore
2. Set up the required Qt environment
$ export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/Qt-5.1.1/plugins/
3. Run the example. You shall see a rotating Qt logo on the display.
$ cd /
$ ./hellogl_es
4. Run top command and it shows the application running with a very low (0 – 1 %) cpu usage.
$ top
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
2820 2809 root S 188m 21.5 0 0.7 ./hellogl_es2
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