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There are two general ways of building your own native application for the target: it can be built either manually, using the cross toolchain of the SDK, or integrated into the BSP, using Yocto and bitbake as a build system. Integrating the application into the BSP build process is the more complex way and useful only if you have modified the BSP and want to deploy a complete root file system image to the target anyway. For a single application, using the BSP in its original state as provided by SECO Northern Europe, the SDK is recommended to be used. The following sections describe how to build a simple Hello World! application using the SDK.

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The SDK file is named like seconorth-wayland-glibc-x86_64-seconorth-image-cortexa9t2hf-neon-seco-mx6-toolchain-kirkstone-27.0.sh.

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The installer will ask you if you want to install the SDK into a subfolder in /opt. Just press enter to allow the default location or create your own folder.

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$ cd ~
$ mkdir myapp
$ cd myapp

Create the empty files main.cpp and Makefile in this directory:

$ touch main.cpp Makefile

Edit the contents of the main.cpp file as follows:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
  return 0;
}

Compile a command-line Application

Edit the contents of the Makefile as follows:

myapp: main.cpp
  $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -o $@ $<
  $(STRIP) $@
clean:
  rm -f myapp *.o *~ *.bak

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After a successful build, the myapp executable is created in the myapp directory. You can transfer this application to the target system’s /usr/bin directory using one of the ways described in chapter [Accessing the target system] and execute it from the device shell. It might be necessary to change the access rights of the executable first, so that all users are able to execute it.

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$ cd ~
$ mkdir myqtapp
$ cd myqtapp

Create the empty files main.cpp and myqtapp.pro .

$ touch main.cpp myqtapp.pro

Edit the contents of the file main.cpp as follows:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QPushButton>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  app.setOverrideCursor(Qt::BlankCursor);
  QPushButton hello("Hello World!");
  hello.setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
  hello.resize(800, 480);
  hello.show();
  return app.exec();
}

Edit the contents of the file myqtapp.pro as follows:

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = myqtapp
QT = core gui widgets
SOURCES += \
main.cpp

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After setting up the build environment, execute the following command to create a Makefile and build the binary in the myqtapp directory:

$ qmake myqtapp.pro
$ make

Now, there is the myqtapp executable in the myqtapp directory. You can transfer this application to the target system’s /usr/bin directory and run it from the device shell.