Mycroft Mark II - GUI using Qt 5.12 LTS

Build QT 5.12 LTS for eglfs

Install and compile Qt 5.12 LTS using this excellent guide: ​https://www.tal.org/tutorials/building-qt-512-raspberry-pi.

Prerequisites

I did add 1GB swap and set the GPU memory to 16MB while building which worked without problem and took about 10 hours.

Download and build

The following steps are from that guide and is only here so that it does not get lost.

• wget ​http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.12/5.12.7/single/qt-everywhere-src-5.12.7.tar.xz
• tar xf qt-everywhere-src-5.12.7.tar.xz
• git clone ​https://github.com/oniongarlic/qt-raspberrypi-configuration.git
• cd qt-raspberrypi-configuration && make install DESTDIR=../qt-everywhere-src-5.12.7
• apt-get update
• apt-get install build-essential libfontconfig1-dev libdbus-1-dev libfreetype6-dev libicu-dev libinput-dev libxkbcommon-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libglib2.0-dev libraspberrypi-dev
• mkdir build
• cd build

then this command:

PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig \
../qt-everywhere-src-5.12.7/configure -platform linux-rpi-g++ \
-v \
-opengl es2 -eglfs \
-no-gtk \
-opensource -confirm-license -release \
-reduce-exports \
-force-pkg-config \
-nomake examples -no-compile-examples \
-skip qtwayland \
-skip qtwebengine \
-no-feature-geoservices_mapboxgl \
-qt-pcre \
-no-pch \
-ssl \
-evdev \
-system-freetype \
-fontconfig \
-glib \
-prefix /opt/Qt5.12 \
-qpa eglfs

• make -j2
• make install

This results in the complete build in /opt/Qt5.12

Building Kirigami

This is based on a combination of the official KDE guide to build the KDE framework at ​https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Set_up_kdesrc-build and this comprehensive guide at ​https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2019/05/25/kdesrc-build-custom-qt.html As above these are the pure commands:

• mkdir -p ~/kde/src
• cd ~/kde/src/
• git clone ​https://anongit.kde.org/kdesrc-build.git && cd kdesrc-build
• ./kdesrc-build --initial-setup
• source ~/.bashrc
• nano ~/.kdesrc-buildrc

change the qtdir so that it points to the Qt5.12 installation and comment the qt5-build-include and custom-qt5-libs-build-include

#    qtdir  ~/kde/qt5 # Where to find Qt5
    qtdir /opt/Qt5.12
...
# Qt and some Qt-using middleware libraries
# include /home/pi/kde/src/kdesrc-build/qt5-build-include
# include /home/pi/kde/src/kdesrc-build/custom-qt5-libs-build-include

• kdesrc-build kirigami --include-dependencies

Test Kirigami

Use the exmaple from ​https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/html/classorg_1_1kde_1_1kirigami_1_1ApplicationWindow.html (also attached) and try to run it.

• mkdir -p ~/ws_qt/kirigami
• cd ~/ws_qt/kirigami

either edit the file and paste the content

• nano main.qml

or download the attachement

• wget ​https://www.thinkthinkdo.com/trac/project1/raw-attachment/wiki/mycroft_mark-2_gui_qt5.11/main.qml

run it (showing additional debug output and adding the kde framwork build to the import path)

• QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QML_IMPORT_TRACE=1 QML2_IMPORT_PATH=/home/pi/kde/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qml /opt/Qt5.12/bin/qmlscene ~/ws_qt/kirigami/main.qml

build the mycroft GUI

This is following ​https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-gui but building the GUI manually for the QT5.12 and Kirigami installation above

• cd ~
• sudo apt-get install git -y
• git clone ​https://github.com/mycroftai/mycroft-gui
• cd mycroft-gui
• sudo apt-get install -y git-core g++ cmake extra-cmake-modules gettext pkg-config
• mkdir build-testing
• cd build-testing
• cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt5.12/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON

-- stuck here because it needs KF5 and KF5I18n so I am going back to building this from the KDE sources. In previous tries I did install the system package kio-dev but I don't want to do that again as I don't want to mix versions ---