I have DIGI ConnectCore development kit, based on I.MX53 microprocessor, on which iI'm trying to launch QT5 QML-based application. But building rootfs image by means of Yocto doesn't bring good results.
I use Ubuntu (64-bit version 14.04) virtual machine and following meta-layers (both "daisy" and "dizzy" branches I've tried):
Those from Freescale community (Github);
Meta-qt5 layer (Github)
I have already tried fsl-image-multimedia(-full) recipe with modified local.conf, which contents concering QT5 I get from this link.
I have to say, builds was successful, but I haven't managed to launch QT Quick-based applications (those one based on widgets runs well), and I've got following errors from debug console, when I run app under X-window system (by using "-platform xcb" postfix):
Could not find of the system's Compose files. Consider setting the QTCOMPOSE environment setting.
QxbIntegration: cannot create platform opengl context, neither GLX nor EGL enabled
Failed to create openGL context for format qsurfaceformat
... and such errors I've got when run with eglfs plugin (-platform eglfs):
Could not find of the system's Compose files. Consider setting the QTCOMPOSE environment setting.
Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x300b.
I realize that such messages points to OpenGL-related problems, but I cannot understand, what's the reason. GPU-related packages are included in build (I mean "amd-gpu-bin-mx51" and "imx-vpu"). I have tried both X and direct framebuffer (by adding DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "x11 wayland" in local.conf) variants, but with no success.
Do I need to get some special packages on configs in order to get QML applications working?
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We are developing a software using QT creator. The software is meant to run on windows and on an ARM mini-computer running Debian. To test the software on the mini-computer, we logged in on the mini computer using ssh and an exported display. Some programs like Inkscape run fine, but we can't get to run QT Creator. It always displays the following errors:
No tool chain set from kit "Desktop".
No tool chain set from kit "Desktop".
Cant find EGLConfig, returning null config
Unable to find an X11 visual which matches EGL config 0
Could not initialize OpenGL for RasterGLSurface, reverting to RasterSurface.
Cant find EGLConfig, returning null config
Unable to find an X11 visual which matches EGL config 0
Could not initialize OpenGL
We also tried to log in from another x86 linux computer, but this created the same errors. Thus we suppose that the problems are linked to the architecture. Does anybody know how to solve this issue?
EDIT: We just tried to access QT creator from another ARM Debian mini-computer and it also fails. Thus it does not seem to be related to the architecture as we first suspected.
(We could of course do cross compiling and remote debugging, but we try to avoid this)
Try loading qtcreator without the Welcome addon:
qtcreator -noload Welcome
The Welcome addon uses OpenGL which probably isn't supported by X forwarding.
I'm using Debian Jessie and dmesg | grep video returns:
[ 22.280407] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 22.790704] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Lenovo EasyCamera (13d3:5170)
[ 22.796546] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
The example compiles fine but upon launch i get a dialog telling me that the camera service is missing. I'm using Qt 5.5.0. This question points to a similar issue but it's for windows. Also I've installed Qt using the installer provided at it's web site. I've tested my webcam with Cheese application and it works but QCameraInfo::availableCameras() returns nothing.
I don't know if this is a definitive answer, but in my experience the dreaded "camera service is missing" comes down to exactly what the message says; for some reason the media back-end that Qt uses to get video input from a camera is broken or miss-configured in some way. In my case I had this problem in the following situations:
1. Building Qt from source
Qt build system SILENTLY DISABLES FEATURES if you don't have all the dependencies that it requires to include them in the build. Make sure to read this official article very carefully for your platform. I lost count of the times this has ruined my <insert favourite period of time such as day/week/year here >, and not only for the multimedia module...
2. Missing some gstreamer packages on my Ubuntu
I develop for Linux & Debian mostly, and on those platforms Qt depends on gstreamer backend. gstreamer is basically a plugin architecture in the core with every single feature added as plugins, and with endless possibilities of manual intervention through configuration files. See where is this is going? Clue: make sure you have all the plugins you want installed and configured properly. Here is a link to some gstreamer tools you can use. Same probably goes for other back-ends on other platforms.
And a pro tip in the end: Since both Qt5.5 gstreamer0.1 (old) and gstreamer1.0 (new) are supported as back-ends, and since Qt5.6 the new one is default. This will give you some room for experimenting, for example if the old does not work, you can try the new etc.
Hope this was useful!
My system is Win 8.1 64-bit and using VS2013 Express. I can verify my video cards support the latest OpenGL and OpenCL. I used the latest code and media files from authors github and site: https://github.com/openglsuperbible/sb6code and http://www.openglsuperbible.com/example-code/ respectively.
I am able to make debug and release builds of the project(s) successfully but cannot correctly run it either via debug mode or the .exe in the bin folder. A white window will show up and then exit. I was able to step through and found that glfwOpenWindow will return false causing the exit but I cannot step further and see why it is returning so. I found some solutions that suggested changing
glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE);
to
glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, 0);
but this does not change my results. I can verify also that major version is 4 and minor is 3 for the book code. I have found a few other people having the same problem but no resolution. Another possible solution (but to a different problem it seems) was changing the project subsystem to Console from Windows but this throws an error regarding main and so it may not be what I'm looking for.
For reference, this book is using glfw version 2.7.6 when (currently) the latest is 3.0.4. I tried swapping this too but it understandably blew up due to all of the changes.
Any further ideas would be great and very helpful!
I have discovered that while my GPU does support the latest OpenGL, my computer was instead using the integrated Intel HD 4600! By switching my computer to use the dedicated GPU by default, I am able to run the latest OpenGL.
If it successfully compiled, then please do following:
Ensure that you do have the latest graphic card drivers installed (eg. if you have nVIDIA card, go to www.nvidia.com and get newest drivers).
Ensure that files which these examples are trying to load (I guess jpg/tga/png files, maybe some obj/fbx/3ds files for geometry, whatever else these examples need) are present at expected path (relative path to exe).
Run it as a debug, place breakpoints in app initialization, see that OpenGL is initialized correctly and that required files are loaded. I think you will find that required files are not in expected path(s).
P.S.
I think the best practice for learning OpenGL is not to rely on some library to open window and initalize OpenGL for you - it's better you learn it all step by step - how to open an application window, how to initialize gl render context associated with device context etc. You'd also avoid things like this when you don't know where the problem could be.
I tried making an executable file of my program but there are some errors which I did not understand or could not find solutions of. I used my .exe file onto another computer and there was an error. I made my program through QtCreator (v 5.1.1)with my Windows 7, 64-bit laptop. There was an error when I used it in 2 32-bit laptops.
The error message says:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".
Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, windows.
Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.
I already created a new folder called "platforms" containing "qminimal.dll", "qoffscreen.dll" and "qwindows.dll" in the same level of my .exe file. I also pasted in the same level the other DLLs that my program needs.
In Qt 5.2, there is a tool that can be used for deployment on Windows: windeployqt. It will be in the bin folder of your Qt installation. It greatly simplifies deployment, so if you don't mind downloading a newer Qt version, I'd highly recommend it. It may even work with an older Qt version, but I haven't tested it.
We had exact same problem with Qt5.3.
Problem arised when we've rebuilt the Qt to reduce dependencies (e.g. Qt5Positioning, Qt5Sensors).
Created dlls were copied to different directory (source for installation), but we forgot to copy also newly created platforms plugin dlls.
The problem was fixed by using all dlls from same Qt build (with same configuration).
Your problem is probably the same: mixing dlls from different Qt builds (e.g. different configuration, version,...).
So I've been making a program for my company using Qt 4.8.4 (required). When deploying the project to a different machine, the program runs fine (I included Qtgui4.dll and Qtcore4.dll). However, when trying to view a print preview image using QGraphicsView, no other machine will show it. I even tried installing Qt 4.8.4 on the other machine and building it there to no avail. I use MSVC to compile and have installed Visual Studio on the new machine as well. I also include the imageformats folder when deploying the .exe to other machines.
I am at a loss here. I've researched this for days. I don't understand why it runs perfectly fine on my machine but will not run on others even when I replicate the development environment.
I have attached a picture of it actually working.
On all other machines, the preview image shows blank/white. However, I noticed that the image is built and that it will print. It just will not preview.
I know I haven't included any code but I won't be able to include much as it's for my company. But I have included what I could related to the QGraphicsView.
// Create a handle for the graphics view; fix bug where preview would disappear
// on first view; winId() creates the winId; Needed to initialize first
ui->graphicsView->winId();
/************************************/
if (preview)
preview(ui->graphicsView->winId(), &err);
No solution was found on my end. I finished the application with the stipulation that the OS could not be XP.