Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Installing gpsbabel on Intel Edison

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/Source.html lists the name for
several Linux distributions. I do see it's a tad out of date as it lists
4.6 while our floor is a bit higher than that at either 5.2 or 5.4, so I'll
put that on the list to update.

If you're looking to parse most of the output from the NMEA of one specific
GPS, writing your own NMEA reader isn't hard. If you're looking for
something that's battle tested against many hundreds of NMEA variations and
that deals with all the weird edge/corner cases of optional fields, devices
that lie about checksums, store required data in proprietary sentences, etc
while writing to any of a few hundred formats or doing any kind of
post-processing. installing Qt and building GPSBabel is still the way to
go, IMO. We've spent over 15 years at it. I just think you're the first on
the list to ever try on Edison/Galileo.



On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Allen Edwards <
all...@ol...> wrote:

> Nevermind.  I am writing my own.  Almost done, just need the date and time
> line.
>
> It might be useful to document which Qt is required, what exactly it is
> called, and where to find it.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Allen Edwards <all...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> I am not fixating on the GUI.  I am actually trying to just get gpsbabel
>> to work from a command line.  I asked Intel and they sent me to that page
>> that seems very GUI focused, which is why I didn't try and follow its
>> instructions and called it a rabbit hole, something I go down only to find
>> it is not what I want.
>>
>> I tried installing Qt, QT, Qt5m Qt5.3.2 and got "unknown package" on all.
>>
>>
>> I did find a link that said it was just what I wanted from StackOverflow
>> http://doc.qt.io/QtEnterpriseEmbedded/qtee-custom-embedded-
>> linux-image.html
>>
>> It says it will install "Boot to Qt" which right away looks like another
>> rabbit hole.
>>
>> I see references to meta-qt5 and qtcreator.  I don't know what gpsbabel
>> needs.  I think it needs Qt5 but I can't find it.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Robert Lipe <rob...@gp...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ​That page is titled. ​
>>> "Qt5 GUI on Intel Edison"
>>>
>>> ​If you don't want the GUI, don't build the GUI.
>>>
>>> I don't do Galileo[1], but it looks like it runs Yocto Linux. Since that
>>> very page says "the version of Qt in the Yocto package is 5.3.2."​,
>>> find that and install it. Quit fixating on the GUI.  The standard
>>> ./configure && make (or qmake && make) builds the command line version.
>>> ​
>>> You really need to find a group with a higher concentration of
>>> Galileo/Yocto expertise than you'll find here.​
>>>
>>> RJL
>>> ​
>>> [1] I do some Pi and C.H.I.P., where the environments tend to be
>>> debian-based, so the parlance isn't alien. It's just not a dialect I speak.​
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Allen Edwards <
>>> all...@ol...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was pointed to this blog entry http://hobby.farit.ru/qt
>>>> 5-gui-intel-edison/
>>>>
>>>> And it looked a little more complicated than other Edison related
>>>> things I spent days on with no luck.  It seems it would be easier to write
>>>> my own converter than follow that rabbit hole.
>>>>
>>>> I have gpsbabel running on my Windows 7 machine and my hope was to find
>>>> something as simple as that was.
>>>>
>>>> I have searched using Google for a converter but pretty much all the
>>>> articles reference gpsbabel.
>>>>
>>>> I was just hoping that it was not this difficult.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I need to give this to a half dozen other users and if it look
>>>> complicated to me, it will be impossible for them.
>>>>
>>>> Allen
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Robert Lipe <rob...@gp...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, and Welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Qt offers a lot of APIs; a GUI is only one of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> We still have supported (and shipped) the command line version, just
>>>>> like we have for 17 years. Our command line edition uses QtCore for
>>>>> strings, time, and such. Our GUI uses, unsurprisingly, QtGui.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know enough about Edison to know where or how they distribute
>>>>> packages. At a glance, Galileo looks like another x86 Linux, and since many
>>>>> popular Linux apps use Qt, it's likely that you won't have to build it from
>>>>> scratch. The question to ask your Galileo community is "how can I get Qt
>>>>> (or at least QtCore...though I won't swear we don't use other Qt modules)
>>>>>  for Galileo?"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Allen Edwards <
>>>>> all...@ol...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Where is a precompiled binary distribution?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:13 PM, SRE <ste...@cl...> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At 10:26 AM 7/16/17, Allen Edwards wrote:
>>>>>>> >Looking up Qt5 I find it is all about a graphical user interface,
>>>>>>> >which I definitely do not want to install.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I lost the ability to build, and therefore to contribute, when Qt5
>>>>>>> was incorporated. That's just the way it is now. You'll have to
>>>>>>> install Qt (which I tried and failed to get working on Windoze)
>>>>>>> or install a pre-compiled binary distribution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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