[yocto] runqemu - "Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting"

[Martin Kelly]

I found the source of the issue (SDL must be compiled with X11 support) 
and sent a patch to OE-core to fix it:

https://patchwork.openembedded.org/series/6211

On 04/04/2017 03:41 PM, Martin Kelly wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm hitting an error on runqemu when I try to build an SDK and image on
> one machine and run it on another, even when the build machine and
> qemu-running machine match very closely (both running Debian Jessie on
> Intel 64-bit hardware). Specifically, I get this error:
>
> Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting
>
> Interestingly, I don't get this when I do runqemu on the same machine
> that built the image and SDK (in fact, it works on either machine, as
> long as the image/SDK never leave the machine). Now, if I manually copy
> and paste the runqemu command, but just use the Debian-provided qemu
> instead of the one from the SDK, then again everything works fine. Note
> also that libSDL-1.2.so.0 is installed on both systems. At this point
> I'm pretty stumped.
>
> Google says that, in the past, this occurred because of X11 ABI issues:
>
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040
>
> However, the x11-native version I'm building through 1.6.3, and Debian
> Jessie provides 1.6.2, so I would guess the ABI is OK between those two
> versions. In addition, the fact that it works on the same machine that
> built the SDK and image is strange.
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
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