Cross compiling Qt/X11
Overview Cross compiling Qt Embedded is relatively trivial since it is so self contained, but as the number of external dependencies increases (DirectFB, D-Bus, GStreamer, OpenGL ES) adjusting your...
View ArticleBuilding Qt to make use of the Beagle board’s SGX GPU
Introduction Texas Instruments has a wiki which documents what is required to bring Qt up on the Beagle board with full OpenGL ES (1/2) support: http://www.tiexpressdsp.com/index.php/Building_Qt and I...
View ArticleQt/X11 bring up on Tegra2 with full OpenGL ES 2 support
Requirements 1) Tegra 2 platform 2) The latest Nvidia Tegra2 SDK (11.0074_devlite_eula_Beta-RC.zip at this time) Board bring up Nvidia have done a pretty good job in documenting bring up and I will not...
View ArticleHitching Qt/Embedded to a framebuffer OpenGL ES (2) abstraction
People (customers in my case) often find themselves in a situation where they have OpenGL ES 2 libraries for their hardware and want to use their hardware’s OpenGL capabilities in conjunction with Qt....
View ArticleChasing the raspberry pi dragon: OpenGL ES2 accelerated Qt PI
The raspberry pi initiative is very compelling and (forgive me for the hype) just got even more compelling now that we have Qt 5 running with full acceleration on the target. A tagline of “An ARM Linux...
View ArticleTesting QtQuick 2 (Qt 5) on your n9/n950
QtQuick 2 promises superior performance, a new particle system and a host of new possibilities: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qt5/qtquick2-whatsnew.html It is also quite ripe for testing if you are into that...
View ArticleRaspberry PI: A case study in deploying Qt apps to generic Linux devices
Overview This is an awfully dry post; dry due to the sheer logistic nature of it. This functionality exists and is quite straight forwards to stumble upon. This blog exists in order to draw your...
View ArticleCross compiling Qt for the masses
Cross compiling Qt for particular devices/BSPs can be frustrating when operating from first principles and we are trying to improve the existing configure/qmake build infrastructure in Qt 5, as well as...
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