Did you ever buy something marked Some Assembly Required only to get it home and find out Some actually means several hours of work and that the tools you need aren't included? I feel guilty, because this chapter should be labeled Some Assembly Required, but at least I will help you to find all of the free tools you need.
In this chapter, we will look not only at getting the software tools, but also getting the hardware set up and working toward getting the best experience with the rest of this book. We will walk through the basic setup of the Qt toolchain, embedded compilers, and reference hardware.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Creating our embedded environment
- Preparing the host machine compiler
- Building Qt for the target