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Re:The Raspberry Beer’o’meter by inferiorhuman on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:24AM (#20975868)
I've been monkeying with a Qt/QML app recently on my desktop with an eye towards deploying it on a Pi based thing. One thing really stood out: the Pi support kinda sucks. Specifically, the binary situation is not great and Qt is a bit of a beast to compile (plus I'd have to setup a Linux VM to cross compile in a reasonable amount of time).

Raspbian comes with a fairly outdated version of Qt inherited from Debian, and there are no precompiled EGLFS binaries that I can find. Even the Qt folks don't distribute an installer. I could understand a complex beginners guide[1] if this were lower level stuff. It's not.

1: https://wiki.qt.io/Raspberry_Pi_Beginners_Guide

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Re:The Raspberry Beer’o’meter by kingosticks on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:19AM (#20976168)
I had the same experience a couple of months ago. I spent a weekend banging my head against a wall following their documentation to cross-compile for pi3. Turns out it was out of date and there were also a couple of bugs. Since then they did fix one of the issues I reported. The other one already had a long open issue with no resolution (at the time). But I've lost all interest in trying again for the foreseeable future and I wouldn't recommend the experience.
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Re:The Raspberry Beer’o’meter by Fnoord on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:30PM (#20978337)
> recently

How recent? Debian's latest stable, Buster, got released a couple of months ago. Raspbian's rebase on Debian Buster is recent, like a good month ago. Raspbian should sport Buster's Qt version.

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Re:The Raspberry Beer’o’meter by inferiorhuman on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:19PM (#20989110)
Right, and Buster has Qt 5.11. Qt 5.14 is nearly out and there've been some fairly significant changes in .12 and .13 (and finally a JS native table model for .14 — Qt Quick 2 is really, really immature).

Of course Debian only bundles X11 versions of Qt so if you're looking for an EGLFS build, you're still stuck rolling your own. If the Qt folks distributed pre-built EGLFS binaries for the Pi this would be a huge usability win IMO.

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