[Resolved] Compiling QGroundControl for x86 Android System

jnomikos · June 21, 2023, 4:04pm

Good afternoon,

I have an x86 android device, and I was wondering if it is possible to compile QGroundControl and have it able to run on that device.

I see that QGroundControl can be built for clang multi-abi, clang aarch64, and clang arm by default. What would it take to get it to build for android x86?

I do see in QGCCommon.pri that it does check if the build is Android x86, which makes me wonder if it’s already supported:

github.com

mavlink/qgroundcontrol/blob/aa0f2c61b2c0dbf1913f1f8186312811ca7dbdeb/QGCCommon.pri

################################################################################
#
# (c) 2009-2020 QGROUNDCONTROL PROJECT <http://www.qgroundcontrol.org>
#
# QGroundControl is licensed according to the terms in the file
# COPYING.md in the root of the source code directory.
#
################################################################################

#
# This file contains configuration settings which are common to both the QGC Application and
# the Location Plugin. It should mainly contains initial CONFIG tag setup and compiler settings.
#

# Setup our supported build types. We do this once here and then use the defined config scopes
# to allow us to easily modify suported build types in one place instead of duplicated throughout
# the project file.

CONFIG -= debug_and_release
CONFIG += warn_on

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        } else:equals(ANDROID_TARGET_ARCH, x86)  {
            CONFIG += Androidx86Build
            DEFINES += __androidx86__
            message("Android x86 build")
        }

jnomikos · June 21, 2023, 5:05pm

Got it building for x86 system by building with clang multiabi

Karl_Schoelpple · September 7, 2023, 1:10pm

Did you get the .apk file as well?
I can not get past regular build stage, so no chance for .apk in my case.