[Development] QtCS: Qt Embedded

Donald Carr sirspudd at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 10:53:08 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Girish Ramakrishnan
> <girish at forwardbias.in> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> For those who were unable to attend, I have posted notes on
>> http://qt-project.org/groups/qt-contributors-summit-2012/wiki/Qt-in-Embedded.
>
> Great! I have few comments from my side:
>
> 1) Please do not forget the QtSerialPort project we have been working
> on. I see no mentionings about that.
>
> I think serial port management is a crucial part of many existing
> embedded boards and systems (just mentioning rpi via gadget serial
> driver, beagleboard, pandaboard and so forth). Therefore, this should
> also be a fundamental part of the vision. Luckily enough, we have a
> good team around focusing on that, and can propose to a mature add-on
> soon from playground.
>
> 2) Pandaboard (including the ES version) is not mentioned, but it has
> been working fine for me as well. Our company has been using that
> daily for business goals, so I would definitely put that there as
> supported. I am sure, it is not just us. I would even say, it is
> probably more appealing recently than the beagleboard.
>
> 3) I find the onboard build important as well. Perhaps I can focus
> more on that, if you do not find this ability that important as the
> cross-build. This is pretty much the common way for ready-made OSes I
> worked with, like ubuntu-arm, arch-arm and so forth. It fits better to
> many people's workflow including me.

I have raised with Ossi that I would like to add a separate rule for
compiling build tools for the target. There are some complexities,
like requiring a (never tested) on target mkspec which the target
qmake would have to use. I would find this very useful in generating
images for the Raspberry Pi; compiling Qt on the Pi would be insane,
but compiling minor Qt projects on the Pi is entirely feasible and it
would be nice if I didn't actually have to have 2 separate compiles of
Qt in order to get both the libs and the tools to compile on target.

Cheers,
Donald

> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
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