[meta-freescale] Questions about the qt5-layer folder

[Gonzalez, Alex]

Hi Martin,

Digi Embedded Yocto (DEY) is a distribution based on meta-fsl-arm with BSP support for Digi hardware platforms and custom production ready images. As such, questions specific to it should go through Digi support, except if they are related to the community maintained meta-fsl-arm layer.

Also, we only support QT4 in DEY, and that is what you get when you add the dey-qt feature to your graphical images.

Your question refers to the qt5-layer folder in meta-fsl-arm and its relation to the meta-qt5 layer. The qt5-layer in meta-fsl-arm contains bbappends that are only parsed if the meta-qt5 layer is included in you bblayers, so it will allow to build without errors if it is not.

Regards,
Alex

From: meta-freescale-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-freescale-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Martin Galvan
Sent: miércoles, 02 de julio de 2014 20:42
To: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
Subject: [meta-freescale] Questions about the qt5-layer folder

Hi everyone! I'm currently working with an i.MX53 based board using the Digi Embedded Yocto distro, and I have a couple of questions about the Qt5 support.

I noticed the qt5-layer folder only has a .bbappend and a patch, while the files on the meta-qt5 repository are a lot more and quite different from the DEY ones. What's the relationship between the two? For example, I didn't see a SRC_URI line specifying the Qt5 tarball to be downloaded anywhere in the DEY files. Is this intentional? Or does the qt5-layer contain board-specific settings and I should download the meta-qt5 layer separately?

Also, do I need to add "dey-qt" to EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES in local.conf in order to be able to run Qt5 based apps on my board?
Thanks a lot!
PS: We're using Qt/X11 instead of Qt Embedded.