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It provides the complete toolchain required for faster software development, enabling quicker time-to-market. The Qt development environment for device creation consists of: \include common.qdocinc overview-list \e{\b{IMPORTANT:} Make sure to follow the \l{Installation Guide} closely!} \section1 Contents \list \li \l{Overview} \li \l{About Boot to Qt} \li \l{Installation Guide} \li \l{Supported Platforms} \li \l{Preparing Hardware} \list \li \l{Boundary Devices i.MX6 Boards} \li \l{Preparing SABRE SD i.MX6}{SABRE SD i.MX6Quad (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing SABRE SD i.MX6}{SABRE SD i.MX6Dual (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing Toradex Apalis iMX6}{Toradex Apalis iMX6 (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing Toradex Colibri iMX6}{Toradex Colibri iMX6 (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing Toradex Colibri VF50 and VF61}{Toradex Colibri VF50 and VF61 (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing ArchiTech Tibidabo}{ArchiTech Tibidabo (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing BeagleBone Black}{BeagleBone Black (embedded Linux)} \li \l{Preparing Raspberry Pi 2}{Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (embedded Linux)} \endlist \li \l{Building and Running Embedded Applications} \list \li \l{Special Build & Run Options} \endlist \li \l{Customization} \li \l{Building Your Own Embedded Linux Image} \list \li \l{Linking to Static Builds of Qt} \endlist \li \l{ChangeLog} \li \l{Troubleshooting} \li \l{Known Issues} \li \l{License Information} \endlist \section1 Reference Documentation \list \li \l{Add-On Modules} \endlist */ /*! \page qtee-overview.html \previouspage index.html \nextpage qtee-about-b2qt.html \title Overview The development package that you get with \SDK consists of: \include common.qdocinc overview-list \section1 About Qt Development Libraries \l {http://www.qt.io/}{Qt} is a full development framework designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms. With Qt, you can reuse code efficiently to target multiple platforms with one code base. The modular C++ class library and development tools enable developers to create applications for one platform and easily build and deploy on other platforms as well. The Qt libraries provide high-level APIs for a large variety of both non-GUI and GUI related functionality. For UI creation, Qt provides a number of approaches: traditional C++, declarative UI design with \l {Qt Quick} or HTML5/hybrid user interfaces with the \l {Qt WebEngine} module. For overview about Qt libraries see the \l {Qt reference documentation}. \section1 Additional Embedded Libraries and Value-Add Components In addition to the Boot to Qt stack and a comprehensive development environment, \SDK comes with a set of components that bring new features and speed up the creation of high-performing, modern UI embedded applications: \list \li \l {Qt Virtual Keyboard} - complete virtual keyboard solution with word-prediction and multiple languages supported. \li \l {Qt Quick Enterprise Controls} - a set of advanced UI controls with an industry-specific look-and-feel. \li \l {Qt Quick Compiler} - enables compiling .qml source files into application binaries, improving load times and security for code assets. \li \l {Qt Charts} - UI Components for displaying visually pleasing charts, driven by static or dynamic data models. \li \l {Qt Data Visualization} - UI Components for creating stunning 3D data visualizations. \li \l {Qt Quick 2D Renderer} - enables Qt Quick UIs on GPU-less devices. \endlist \section1 About the Development Environment The development environment is built around the Qt Creator IDE. Qt Creator runs on all desktop platforms, but the embedded development environment is currently supported only on 64-bit Linux desktop. Device deployment can be done directly from the Qt Creator IDE to a device connected via USB or local area network. The Qt Creator IDE is pre-configured for devices running \B2Q but can also be manually configured to build and deploy to custom embedded toolchains and devices. Alternatively, you can deploy the application locally to the Emulator that is running the same, full software stack as the devices. As with any Qt based application, the same application can be deployed to desktop and mobile OS targets as well. */ /*! \page qtee-about-b2qt.html \previouspage qtee-overview.html \nextpage qtee-installation-guide.html \title About Boot to Qt \e{\b{\B2Q}} is a light-weight, Qt-optimized, full software stack for embedded Linux systems that is installed into the actual target device. This is done by flashing the device's memory card or internal memory directly with a pre-built image that comes with the online installer. See the \l{Installation Guide} for details. \B2Q is ideal for the following use cases: \list \li Evaluating Qt on real embedded environment using one of the provided reference images. \li Getting the embedded development environment up and running in no time. Later, the stack can be customized to production with \e Build-Your-Own-Stack tooling, including proprietary Yocto Project recipes. \endlist \image build-your-own-stack.png \B2QL is using the traditional embedded Linux kernel built with the Yocto Poky reference system (Yocto 1.6 Daisy release). The embedded Linux variant is designed for great customization possibilities. It contains only components required in the embedded device, resulting in smaller image sizes while keeping valuable development tools available. \B2Q have been tested and verified on a number of different hardware configurations. Usage of \B2Q is not limited to the devices used as \l {Supported Platforms}{reference platforms}, it can be made to run on a variety of hardware. \section1 Build-Your-Own-Stack Tooling \B2QL is built using the tools and resources from the \l {Yocto Project}, and is based on Yocto's reference distribution (\e Poky). You can use the same tools to build custom \B2Q images, and have control over the packages included in the build and configure the software stack. The process consist of three parts: Building the \B2Q image and the external toolchain, building Qt libraries and add-ons, and configuring Qt Creator for the new toolchain and custom image: \list \li \l {Building Your Own Embedded Linux Image} \endlist \section1 Emulator The \l {Emulator Manual}{emulator} running a \B2Q image enables you to test and debug applications in an environment identical to that of the device, without having a real device connected to the development host. */