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diff --git a/QC-dev-environment/REAME.md b/QC-dev-environment/REAME.md index edbe683..5a7e588 100644 --- a/QC-dev-environment/REAME.md +++ b/QC-dev-environment/REAME.md @@ -10,12 +10,24 @@ Go into the QC-dev-environment directory and run: docker build . -t <your-wanted-tag e.g. cortex-dev> ``` +### Getting the update file + +The update process of the QC is done in 2 steps. First the download, after that the install. We can use this to our advantage to grab the actual update file. Once you downloaded the update **do not install it yet.** Get an SSH shell going and go to `/media/p4`. There you will find your update file. A registry of these file names is also available inside the `filesystems/README.md` of this folder. + +You can use the `scp` tool to send this update file over to your system. + +Once you've got the update file, you can put it inside the `filesystems` directory to mount to the docker container. Now you can use the update file to explore your QC (except for the user files), and even create custom update packages. + ### Running the container It needs to run privileged since we need to run the `mount` command inside it. You can run it without the `--privileged` path if you're not planning to mount the QC's file system and just want to compile something ``` -docker run --privileged -it -p 5900:5900 -v <absolute-path-to-current-folder>/mount:/mnt cortex-dev +docker run --privileged -it -p 5900:5900 \ + -v <absolute-path-to-current-folder>/mount:/mnt \ + -v <absolute-path-to-current-folder>/filesystems:/qc-fs \ + -e UPDATE_FILE=<update-file-name> \ + cortex-dev ``` When attached to the docker container's shell, there is one post-install step left. Run the following command: @@ -26,3 +38,19 @@ When attached to the docker container's shell, there is one post-install step le This will mount the QC filesystem and install a custom compiled version of QT inside it that has support for VNC. +To link QT to the right fonts folder, run: + +```bash +export QT_QWS_FONTDIR=/etc/fonts +``` + + + +## Config for custom compiled QT + +For running GUI applications such as `ZenUI` it is possible to output the video to a virtual device. One of these posibilities is a simple VNC server. To enable this ability I have compiled QT from source using the following config: + +``` +./configure -embedded arm -xplatform qws/linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ -nomake examples -nomake demos -opensource -qt-libtiff -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libjpeg -optimized-qmake -qt-freetype -qt-gfx-vnc -no-webkit -no-javascript-jit -optimized-qmake -no-cups && make +``` + |