Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beagleboard X15 Microsoft Visual Studio GUI example project

[Tarmo]

On Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:10:48 UTC+3, jonnymo wrote:
>
> Actually, Visual Studio is a good platform for cross compiling especially 
> with the newer versions of VS.  There is a built in Linux feature that lets 
> you create Linux based projects and then you can just reference your ARM 
> based toolchain in the VS config. I use this with the RasPi but it should 
> be the same for the BB products.  
>

Interesting. I guess it's a good time to be a cross-platform developer. 

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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beagleboard X15 Microsoft Visual Studio GUI example project

[jonnymo]

Actually, Visual Studio is a good platform for cross compiling especially
with the newer versions of VS.  There is a built in Linux feature that lets
you create Linux based projects and then you can just reference your ARM
based toolchain in the VS config. I use this with the RasPi but it should
be the same for the BB products.

Here are a couple of links that might help, although they are for BBB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-1hDfoRcg
https://elinux.org/images/d/df/Using_VS_and_VS_Code_for_Embedded_Development.pdf


Using VisualGDB although I am not sure if this is needed any more.
https://visualgdb.com/tutorials/beaglebone/qt5/cross-compile/

You could toss in GTK or Qt or even OpenGL ES for graphics dev.

The other option is Qt Creator as Tarmo mentioned.

Eclipse is another good option.

Cheers,

Jon


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:36 AM Tarmo  wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Thursday, 16 July 2020 04:31:40 UTC+3, Kevin Hudson wrote:
>>
>> I am working on a project that uses the Beagleboard X15 as the hardware
>> platform.  My task is to write a GUI that runs on the X15 using Microsoft
>> Visual Studio 2017.  Do you know of any example project code that is
>> available anywhere that I can use to get started and as a reference?  Thank
>> you for your help.
>>
>
> Note that from an application developer's perspective the wildly popular
> Raspberry Pi and the Beagles are mostly the same platform - a Debian
> GNU/Linux system on armhf architecture. You can use this to your advantage
> to google for something like "cross develop raspberry on windows" which
> will bring up quite a few more articles than searching for beagle-specific
> stuff.
>
> Visual Studio is a great tool for developing against x86/Windows targets.
> If you're developing with VS against a ARM/Linux target using third-party
> GUI libraries, it's probably possible (according to some articles Google
> spit out) but setting up cross-development GUI libraries is going to be a
> bit of a pain, I suspect. You could also take a more traditional cross
> platform approach, which involves setting up a GNU gcc toolchain from
> linaro with your favourite editor/IDE and required GUI dependencies.
> Haven't done either, though, so can't offer solid advice.
>
> An alternative with much less set-up effort - you can write, compile and
> run code of almost any language and GUI framework directly on the
> Beagleboard itself, especially if the project is small. Just install
> package 'build-essential' (assuming we're talking about a C/C++
> application), the development packages for your chosen GUI framework (e.g.
> 'qtbase5-dev' for QT) and your favourite Linux editor/IDE.
>
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[beagleboard] Re: Beagleboard X15 Microsoft Visual Studio GUI example project

[Tarmo]

Hi Kevin,

On Thursday, 16 July 2020 04:31:40 UTC+3, Kevin Hudson wrote:
>
> I am working on a project that uses the Beagleboard X15 as the hardware 
> platform.  My task is to write a GUI that runs on the X15 using Microsoft 
> Visual Studio 2017.  Do you know of any example project code that is 
> available anywhere that I can use to get started and as a reference?  Thank 
> you for your help.
>

Note that from an application developer's perspective the wildly popular 
Raspberry Pi and the Beagles are mostly the same platform - a Debian 
GNU/Linux system on armhf architecture. You can use this to your advantage 
to google for something like "cross develop raspberry on windows" which 
will bring up quite a few more articles than searching for beagle-specific 
stuff.

Visual Studio is a great tool for developing against x86/Windows targets. 
If you're developing with VS against a ARM/Linux target using third-party 
GUI libraries, it's probably possible (according to some articles Google 
spit out) but setting up cross-development GUI libraries is going to be a 
bit of a pain, I suspect. You could also take a more traditional cross 
platform approach, which involves setting up a GNU gcc toolchain from 
linaro with your favourite editor/IDE and required GUI dependencies. 
Haven't done either, though, so can't offer solid advice.

An alternative with much less set-up effort - you can write, compile and 
run code of almost any language and GUI framework directly on the 
Beagleboard itself, especially if the project is small. Just install 
package 'build-essential' (assuming we're talking about a C/C++ 
application), the development packages for your chosen GUI framework (e.g. 
'qtbase5-dev' for QT) and your favourite Linux editor/IDE. 

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