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== Introduction ==
The test bed used for this application note is composed of the same hardware/software platform delivered along with the [[DESK-MX6UL-L | DESK-MX6UL-L]]. About Buildroot, the version [https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2022.05.tar.gz buildroot-2022.05] was used.
==DonwloadingVirtual Machine requirements ==The building process may requires higher resources than the original [[DESK-MX6UL-L | DESK-MX6UL-L]] MVM settings: this depends on the package selected in the <code>.config</code> file and theirs build resources. For example: building the <code>qt-webkit</code> package will require a lot of resources so it is better to add more CPUs and more RAM to the VM like the following settings: [[File:DESK-MX6UL-MVM_buildroot.png|thumb|center|600px| MVM with 10 CPU cores and 16GB of RAM]] ==Downloading, configuring and building==
This process is straightforward. Once the file [https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2022.05.tar.gz <code>buildroot-2022.05.tar.gz</code>] is downloaded and decompressed on your Linux host machine, get into the Buildroot directory, and run <code>make menuconfig</code>.
Here below a list of most important selected packages:
* '''Qt5.15''' libraries including: <code>fontconfig</code>, <code>DBus</code>, <code>qt5declarative</code>, <code>qt5multimedia</code>, <code>qt5quickcontrols</code>, <code>qt5quickcontrols2</code>, <code>qt5sensors</code>, <code>qt5serialbus</code>, <code>qt5serialport</code>, <code>qtextserialport</code>, <code>Qt SQlite</code> and the very important <code>qt5webkit</code> (and <code>qt5webchannel</code>, <code>qt5websockets</code>)** <code>qt-webwebkit-kiosk</code> browser can be used for creating a GUI with an embedded browser as a Kiosk application has been included too
* framebuffer utilities like: <code>fbset</code>, <code>fbv</code>, <code>fbgrab</code> and the <code>fb-test</code> application
* '''python3''' interpreter including <code>pyhton3python3-ssl</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-flask</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-httplib2</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-jinja2</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-pip</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-py</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-pymodbus</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-pymysql</code>, <code>pyhton-pyqt5</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-pyusb</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-serial</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-requests</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-schedule</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-socketio</code>, <code>pyhtonpython-setupotools</code>
* web server: <code>lighthttpd</code>
* database: <code>sqlite3</code>
* network applications: <code>avahi</code>, <code>bluez</code>, <code>iptables</code>, <code>iw</code>, <code>ntp</code>, <code>openssl</code>, <code>openssh</code>, <code>vsftpd</code>, <code>wget</code>
* Javascript: <code>angularjs</code>, <code>bootstrap</code>
* package managers: <code>opkg</code>, <code>rpm</code>
=== Build the targets ===
==== Qt5 webkit build error ====
The Qt5 building has an error on producing the <code>qt-webkit-kiosk</code> artifacts. Following [https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20220929181350.1026033-1-thomas.ballasi@savoirfairelinux.com/ this thread] you can find a patch for fixing the issuefor the file <code>package/qt5/qt5webkit/qt5webkit.mk</code>:
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==Buildroot file system on the target==
The created root file system can be extracted in a [[DESK-MX6UL-L/General/DVDK_Virtual_Machine | Virtual Machine]] local directory that can be used for starting the rfs via <code>nfs</code>:
<pre class="workstation-terminal">
dvdk@vagrant:~/buildroot$ mkdir rfs && cd rfs
dvdk@vagrant:~/buildroot/rfs$ sudo tar jxpf ../buildroot-2022.05/output/images/rootfs.tar.bz2
dvdk@vagrant:~/buildroot/rfs$
</pre>
Starting the root file system in the target will ''welcome'' you with the classic prompt:
</pre>
Then, the main application applications will show their theirs version:
<pre>
[[File:Qt-webkit-kiosk.png|thumb|center|600px| qt-webkit-kiosk (Google) on AXEL ULite EVK]]
==buildroot 2023.08==
In the same way, the latest <code>buildroot</code> version can be built: with this version, the Qt6 library is available and some packages are the latest version too.
<pre>
root@buildroot:/root# ls -la /usr/lib/libQt6*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so -> libQt6Core.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6 -> libQt6Core.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5656884 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6DBus.so -> libQt6DBus.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6DBus.so.6 -> libQt6DBus.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 750084 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6DBus.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so -> libQt6Gui.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6 -> libQt6Gui.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6442292 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Network.so -> libQt6Network.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Network.so.6 -> libQt6Network.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1608904 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Network.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialBus.so -> libQt6SerialBus.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialBus.so.6 -> libQt6SerialBus.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289148 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialBus.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialPort.so -> libQt6SerialPort.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialPort.so.6 -> libQt6SerialPort.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108220 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SerialPort.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Sql.so -> libQt6Sql.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Sql.so.6 -> libQt6Sql.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 296632 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Sql.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Svg.so -> libQt6Svg.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Svg.so.6 -> libQt6Svg.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337404 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Svg.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SvgWidgets.so -> libQt6SvgWidgets.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SvgWidgets.so.6 -> libQt6SvgWidgets.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34172 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6SvgWidgets.so.6.4.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Widgets.so -> libQt6Widgets.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 29 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Widgets.so.6 -> libQt6Widgets.so.6.4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6604008 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/libQt6Widgets.so.6.4.3
root@buildroot:/root#
</pre>
=== Packages application version ===
<pre>
root@buildroot:/root# python3 --version
Python 3.11.5
root@buildroot:/root# node --version
v16.20.0
root@buildroot:/root# sqlite3 --version
3.42.0 2023-05-16 12:36:15 831d0fb2836b71c9bc51067c49fee4b8f18047814f2ff22d817d25195cf350b0
root@buildroot:/root# gst-launch-1.0 --version
gst-launch-1.0 version 1.22.2
GStreamer 1.22.2
root@buildroot:/root#
</pre>
=== Use cases ===
==== node ====
Using the <code>nodejs</code> Javascript runtime it is possible to easily create an embedded webserver with few lines of code:
<pre>
root@buildroot:/root# cat server.js
const http = require('http');
const hostname = '192.168.0.90';
const port = 3000;
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
res.statusCode = 200;
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
res.end('Hello World\n');
});
server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});
root@buildroot:/root# node server.js
Server running at http://192.168.0.90:3000/
</pre>
and the web server can be contacted from the network at its IP address:
[[File:AXEL-ULite-nodejsFirefox.png | thumb | 600px | center | nodeJS web server]]
==== gstreamer ====
* file: BigBuckBunny_640x360.mp4
* video: MPEG-4 video 4:2:0 @ 640x360 resolution
* gstreamer pipeline
gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///root/BigBuckBunny_640x360.mp4
<pre>
root@buildroot:/root# gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///root/BigBuckBunny_640x360.mp4
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Redistribute latency...
Redistribute latency...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
Redistribute latency...
New clock: GstSystemClock
0:04:28.2 / 0:09:56.5 (45.0 %)
</pre>
Using the <code>imxpxpvideosink</code> plugin, i.e. using the PXP cell for helping the video rendering, the CPU load is around 50%:
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=/root/BigBuckBunny_640x360.mp4 ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! imxpxpvideosink
[[File:AXEL-ULite-buildroot-gstreamer2.png | thumb | center| 1000px| gstreamer CPU load using <code>imxpxpvideosink</code>]]
[[File:Gstreamer-pxp.png | thumb | center| 1000px| Big Buck Bunny 640x360 MPEG-4: 53% CPU load]]
==Binary artifacts ==
buildroot binary artifacts (root file system, kernel+dtb and SDK) can be downloaded - for both versions - from DAVE Embedded Systems [https://cloud.dave.eu/public/buildroot-axel-ulite cloud server]
'''N.B.''' <code>config</code> file should be renamed as <code>.config</code> in the buildroot directory before starting the build process