[Development] Qt 5 Raspberry Pi device program

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 24 de November de 2011 20:26:20 Mark Constable wrote:
> On 2011-11-24 09:22 AM, quim.gil at nokia.com wrote:
> > In any case don't hold your breath for Taku: it's just a collection
> > of upstream packages required to run Qt 5 on top of the hardware.
> > But we are glad that you ask since it will surely welcome more
> > expertise in order to get the plumbing below Qt well fixed.
> 
> I've been working with OpenWRT which provides the functions of a
> router, NAS, LAMP and media server all in a package less than 16Mb
> so I am keen to get a feel for Taku to know if it's anywhere near
> as flexible as an OpenWRT base. I am particularly interested in
> intergrating Qt (or QML) with their UCI system but I have not
> yet managed to build Qt 5 using their Busybox/uClibc/buildroot...
> 
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci
> 
> So if Taku just happens to be OpenWRT based then I'll be an
> extremely happy Qt5/RasPI hacker. If it's just a cut down MeeGo
> or Ubuntu system then I'll probably stick with OpenWRT.

For something that plans on running Qt, you may need an embedded distribution 
that is slightly bigger than OpenWRT. I recommend taking a look at Yocto.

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