X-LINUX-QT is an STM32 MPU OpenSTLinux Expansion Package that targets Qt based application and graphical user interface (GUI) development for the STM32MP25xx series microprocessors. It contains Linux® Qt™ Frameworks, as well as an ST Application Launcher based on Qt™ Framework and application examples to get started with Qt application development.
The Qt framework contains a comprehensive set of highly intuitive and modularized C++ library classes and is loaded with APIs to simplify your application development. Qt produces highly readable, easily maintainable and reusable code with high runtime performance and small footprint – and it's cross-platform.
This expansion package is a complete ecosystem that allow developers working with OpenSTLinux to create Qt based application very easily.
- All-in-one Qt solutions for the entire STM32MPU serie supporting Wayland and Weston.
- Pre-integrated into Linux distribution based on ST environment
- Include Qt frameworks to build UIs and Applications
- Include ST Application Launcher based on Qt framework for MPU devices (see supported platforms list)
OpenEmbedded meta layer to install Qt frameworks and tools for the STM32MPU.
- The X-LINUX-QT OpenSTLinux Expansion Package v2.0.0 is compatible with the Yocto Project™ build systems (mickledore and later versions).
- It is validated using the Qt6 OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project layer (meta-qt6) over the OpenSTLinux Distributions v5.1.
This expansion package is supporting below STM32 MPU boards.
- STM32MP257F-EV1
- STM32MP157F-DK2
- Please follow instructions from the wiki article STM32MP Distribution package
- Clone the meta-st-x-linux-qt git repository
cd <Distribution Package installation directory>/layers/meta-st
git clone -b v2.0.0 https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/meta-st-x-linux-qt.git layers/meta-st/meta-st-x-linux-qt
- Clone the meta-qt6 git repository
git clone -b 6.5.3 https://code.qt.io/yocto/meta-qt6.git layers/meta-qt6
DISTRO=openstlinux-weston MACHINE=stm32mp2 BSP_DEPENDENCY="layers/meta-qt6 layers/meta-st/meta-st-x-linux-qt" source layers/meta-st/scripts/envsetup.sh
bitbake st-image-qt package-index
bitbake st-image-qt -c do_populate_sdk
List of Qt™ 6.5 Modules available in this expansion package:
| Qt Essentials | Module | Available | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qt Core | Y | Core non-graphical classes used by other modules. | |
| Qt GUI | Y | Base classes for graphical user interface (GUI) components. Includes OpenGL. | |
| Qt Multimedia | Y | Classes for audio, video, radio and camera functionality. | |
| Qt Multimedia Widgets | Y | Widget-based classes for implementing multimedia functionality. | |
| Qt Network | Y | Classes to make network programming easier and more portable. | |
| Qt QML | Y | Classes for QML and JavaScript languages. | |
| Qt Quick | Y | A declarative framework for building highly dynamic applications with custom user interfaces. | |
| Qt Quick Controls | Y | Provides lightweight QML types for creating performant user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile devices. These types employ a simple styling architecture and are very efficient. | |
| Qt Quick Dialogs | Y | Types for creating and interacting with system dialogs from a Qt Quick application. | |
| Qt Quick Layouts | Y | Layouts are items that are used to arrange Qt Quick 2 based items in the user interface. | |
| Qt Quick Test | Y | A unit test framework for QML applications, where the test cases are written as JavaScript functions. | |
| Qt SQL | Y | Classes for database integration using SQL. | |
| Qt Test | Y | Classes for unit testing Qt applications and libraries. | |
| Qt Widgets | Y | Classes to extend Qt GUI with C++ widgets. |
| Qt Add-Ons | Module | Available | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qt 3D | Y | Functionality for near-realtime simulation systems with support for 2D and 3D rendering. | |
| Qt 5 Core Compatibility APIs | Y | Qt Core APIs that were in Qt 5 but not Qt 6. | |
| Qt Android Extras | N | Provides platform-specific APIs for Android. | |
| Qt Bluetooth | N | Provides access to Bluetooth hardware. | |
| Qt Charts | Y | UI Components for displaying visually pleasing charts, driven by static or dynamic data models. | |
| Qt Concurrent | Y | Classes for writing multi-threaded programs without using low-level threading primitives. | |
| Qt Data Visualization | N | UI Components for creating stunning 3D data visualizations. | |
| Qt Help | N | Classes for integrating documentation into applications, similar to Qt Assistant. | |
| Qt Image Formats | Y | Plugins for additional image formats: TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP. | |
| Qt Lottie Animation | N | A QML API for rendering graphics and animations in JSON format, exported by the Bodymovin plugin for Adobe® After Effects. | |
| Qt Network Authorization | N | Provides support for OAuth-based authorization to online services. | |
| Qt Multimedia | N | A rich set of QML types and C++ classes to handle multimedia content. Also includes APIs to handle camera access. | |
| Qt NFC | N | Provides access to Near-Field communication (NFC) hardware. | |
| Qt OPC UA | N | Protocol for data modeling and exchange of data in industrial applications. | |
| Qt OpenGL | Y | OpenGL support classes. Deprecated in favor of the QOpenGL* classes in the Qt GUI module. | |
| Qt PDF | N | Classes and functions for rendering PDF documents. | |
| Qt Positioning | Y | Provides access to position, satellite and area monitoring classes. | |
| Qt Print Support | Y | Classes to make printing easier and more portable. | |
| Qt Quick Controls 1 | Y | Reusable Qt Quick based UI controls to create classic desktop-style user interfaces. Deprecated in favor of Qt Quick Controls 2, which are better and easier to use. | |
| Qt Quick Extras All | Y | Provides a specialized set of controls that can be used to build interfaces in Qt Quick. | |
| Qt Quick Timeline | Y | Enables keyframe-based animations and parameterization. | |
| Qt Quick Widgets | Y | Provides a C++ widget class for displaying a Qt Quick user interface. | |
| Qt Quick 3D | Y | Provides a high-level API for creating 3D content or UIs based on Qt Quick. | |
| Qt Quick WebGL | N | Provides a platform plugin that allows streaming Qt Quick user interfaces over the network using WebGL™. | |
| Qt Remote Objects | Y | Provides an easy to use mechanism for sharing a QObject's API (Properties/Signals/Slots) between processes or devices. | |
| Qt Script | N | Classes for making Qt applications scriptable. Deprecated in favor of the QJS* classes in the Qt QML module. | |
| Qt SCXML | Y | Provides classes and tools for creating state machines from SCXML files and embedding them in applications. | |
| Qt Script Tools | Y | Additional components for applications that use Qt Script. | |
| Qt Sensors | N | Provides access to sensor hardware and motion gesture recognition. | |
| Qt Serial Bus | N | Provides access to serial industrial bus interface. Currently the module supports the CAN bus and Modbus protocols. | |
| Qt Serial Port | Y | Provides access to hardware and virtual serial ports. | |
| Qt Speech | N | Provides support for accessibility features such as text-to-speech. | |
| Qt SVG | Y | Classes for displaying the contents of SVG files. Supports a subset of the SVG 1.2 Tiny standard. | |
| Qt UI Tools | N | Classes for loading QWidget based forms created in Qt Designer dynamically, at runtime. | |
| Qt Virtual Keyboard | Y | A framework for implementing different input methods as well as a QML virtual keyboard. Supports localized keyboard layouts and custom visual themes. | |
| Qt WebChannel | N | Provides access to QObject or QML objects from HTML clients for seamless integration of Qt applications with HTML/JavaScript clients. | |
| Qt WebEngine | N | Classes and functions for embedding web content in applications using the Chromium browser project. | |
| Qt WebKit | N | Port of WebKit on top of Qt to support rendering webpages and execute JavaScript code. | |
| Qt WebSockets | N | Provides WebSocket communication compliant with RFC 6455. | |
| Qt WebView | N | Displays web content in a QML application by using APIs native to the platform, without the need to include a full web browser stack. | |
| Qt Wayland Compositor | Y | Provides a framework to develop a Wayland compositor. | |
| Qt for WebAssembly | N | A platform target to compile Qt applications for the web browsers using WebAssembly. | |
| Qt Windows Extras | N | Provides platform-specific APIs for Windows. | |
| Qt X11 Extras | N | Provides platform-specific APIs for X11. | |
| Qt XML | Y | C++ implementations of SAX and DOM. | |
| Qt XML Patterns | Y | Support for XPath, XQuery, XSLT and XML schema validation. | |
| Qt Data Compression | Y | Provides Data Compression Library (zlib) support usied in Qt Core and developpement tools. |