[Qt-interest] building Qt for MIPS

[Mandeep Sandhu]

Please reply to the list and not to me alone...

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:44 PM, suma s <suma_s27 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> hai..
>  thanks for ur rply...
> but i had a question... y actually.. we need to use this " Codesourcery's
> MIPS toolchain" ??? in perticular???...
>

You don't. I was just giving an example of what I use for cross-compiling QT
for a MIPS platform. You can even build the cross-compiling toolchain from
source itself, though its a tedious process. Lot of people go for
"pre-built" toolchains which are easier to use. Codesourcery is one such
company that offers pre-built toolchains.


>
> i mean.. is it bcoz.. its QT specific?? r v need a toolchain for
> crosscompiling??..
> iam not clear about this point... i mean i dint get u as why actually do v
> have to use Codesourcery's MIPS toolchain???...
>

No, there's nothing "QT specific" about the toolchain. The "toolchain",
apart from having the cross-compiler, also have some common libraries (like
libc etc) precompiled for the "target" (in your case target is your MIPS
h/w). This make your job easier as you don't have to corss-compile these
components.

I hope you do know why we need a cross-compiler in the first place? The
corss-compiler runss on your host (which will typically be an x86) and
creates binaries which can run on your target (target is mips in your case).


> and how to get Codesourcery's MIPS toolchain??.. and build qt for that???
>

http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/mips/portal/subscription?@template=lite

HTH,
-mandeep


> if u can plz give me any such related documents or any suggestions .. that
>  can help me in solving my questions... and building QT for MIPS.....
>
>
> --------
> Regards
> Suma
>
> --- On *Mon, 14/2/11, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] building Qt for MIPS
> To: "suma s" <suma_s27 at yahoo.co.in>
> Cc: qt-bugs at trolltech.com, qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Date: Monday, 14 February, 2011, 4:06 PM
>
> You should start off by getting a suitable compiler toolchain for your
> platform (eg: we use the Codesourcery's MIPS toolchain for
> crosscompilation).
>
> For enabling/disabling QT features you can run the configure script from
> src root dir and choose the features you'd want. If you want  to know what
> all options are offered by the configure script, just run it with the --help
> switch.
>
> After that  a simple 'make' and 'make install' should do the job. :)
>
> HTH,
> -mandeep
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:17 PM, suma s <suma_s27 at yahoo.co.in<http://mc/compose?to=suma_s27@yahoo.co.in>
> > wrote:
>
> hai..
> i want to build Qt-4.7 with GL support for MIPS platform...any body having
> any idea on this... or any help regarding this would be highly
> appreciable...
>
> thanks in advance...
>
> --------
> Regards
> Suma
>
>
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