arjan / qt5-crosscompile-rpi-ansible

Ansible playbook for statically cross-compiling Qt for the Raspberry Pi

qt5-crosscompile-rpi-ansible

This is an ansible playbook for cross-compiling Qt5 for the Raspberry Pi. It is mostly based on the Qt RPi beginner guide.

Running

This requires linux, and root access. Install ansible (1.6 or higher), and then type ./run, as root. Paths are currently hardcoded, all files will be downloaded in /opt/buildroot.

After running the ./run script, Qt5 will be downloaded and configured and ready for compilation. Compiling takes a long time, so this could be done best in a screen session:

cd /opt/buildroot/qt5
make -j 4
make install

Compiling an example

After installation, all Qt tools will be installed in /usr/local/qt5pi/bin. You can now compile any Qt .pro project for the RPi by calling /usr/local/qt5pi/bin/qmake.

Note that this will compile Qt as static libraries, with the idea that the output binary is statically linked to the Qt library, for easy portability.