Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi
(This is a provisional page while we find our home at http://qt-project.org )
Qt 5 and Raspberry Pi combine perfectly in so many ways. The goal of this project is to develop the pieces needed for platform and application developers to enjoy Qt 5 after investing $35 in a Raspberry Pi board:
- Taku, a minimal Linux open source stack.
- Qt Creator integration.
We have got some pre-release boards and we have reached the first proofs of concept. We are in contact with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom to ensure that Qt 5 is well supported and all the components of this projects can be released and developed openly. We are also waiting for the debut of qt-project.org to request the use of the common project infrastructure there.
This project has been initiated by a small team of passionate mobile/embedded developers at Nokia and ICS. Anybody is invited to join! We are having a provisional forum thread [developer.qt.nokia.com] while the actual project mailing list arrives.
ACTION!
- Chasing the raspberry pi dragon: OpenGL ES2 accelerated Qt PI [labs.qt.nokia.com]
- Video: Raspberry Pi Qt Quick 2 emitter demo [youtube.com]
- Video: Raspberry Pi Qt Quick 2 particles demo [youtube.com]
- Video: Raspberry Pi Qt Quick 2 sprites [youtube.com]
- Video: Raspberry Pi Qt Quick 2 sprites demo [youtube.com]
Meet Qt 5
- Top performance in constrained hardware.
- Great development environment (C++, Javascript, HTML5, OpenGL, QML, Qt SDK).
- Open development, open roadmap, open governance.
- Intro [labs.qt.nokia.com] & source code [qt.gitorious.org].
Meet Raspberry Pi
- An ARM GNU/Linux box for $35.
- Open specs, open source community.
- Broadcom BCM2835 SoC.
- 700 MHz ARM11 – 256MB.
- OpenGL ES 2.0 – 1080p.
- Ethernet, HDMI, USB, 3.5 mm jack.
- http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Meet Taku
- Just the minimum Linux dependencies to boot Qt 5.
- All open source & (soon) public.
- 7 seconds to command line.
- Qt Creator integration.
- First satisfactory prototype made by about 3 people in about 3 weeks.
- Stable URL soon at qt-project.org
Why?
- Qt development on cool hardware anybody can afford.
- Sexy for adventurous app developers & OSS tinkerers.
- Good to test the new Qt Project open governance.
- Useful to prototype Qt 5 mobile / embedded products.
Source Qt Developer http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_5_on_Raspberry_Pi
