Hello everyone!
I stumbled upon this corner of the internet the last few days and decided I want to dabble in developing a simple application for my Kobo, just for fun.
I am a software developer and regularly use C++ with Qt for desktop apps in my job, so seeing that Nickel is built on Qt was a nice surprise :)
To get started, I successfully extracted the toolchain from this docker image: https://github.com/geek1011/NickelTC and setup my Qt Creator Kit to use this toolchain.
I've also installed NickelMenu in order to launch my future app.
So far so good! I've got a binary compiled with the toolchain, let's run it!
I've created the following script based on the launch script from plato:
And setup NickelMenu like this:
At this point, I'm running into an issue I'm not sure how to fix: NickelMenu starts the script, but my app immediately quits and returns to Nickel. My error.log contains the following:
Does anyone have any tips on how I could proceed? Is the xcb plugin necessary, is it available on the Kobo itself or should I ship it with the app? It seems like $QT_PLUGIN_PATH is not set by itself.
Any help would be highly appreciated :)
I stumbled upon this corner of the internet the last few days and decided I want to dabble in developing a simple application for my Kobo, just for fun.
I am a software developer and regularly use C++ with Qt for desktop apps in my job, so seeing that Nickel is built on Qt was a nice surprise :)
To get started, I successfully extracted the toolchain from this docker image: https://github.com/geek1011/NickelTC and setup my Qt Creator Kit to use this toolchain.
I've also installed NickelMenu in order to launch my future app.
So far so good! I've got a binary compiled with the toolchain, let's run it!
I've created the following script based on the launch script from plato:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
WORKDIR=$(dirname "$0")
cd "$WORKDIR" || exit 1
# shellcheck disable=SC2046
export $(grep -sE '^(INTERFACE|WIFI_MODULE|DBUS_SESSION|NICKEL_HOME|LANG)=' /proc/"$(pidof nickel)"/environ)
sync
killall -TERM nickel hindenburg sickel fickel fmon > /dev/null 2>&1
echo $QT_PLUGIN_PATH >> info.log
echo "starting.." >> info.log
./kobo-test-app -qws >> info.log 2>> error.log
echo "stopping.." >> info.log
./nickel.sh &Code:
menu_item :main :Start test app :cmd_spawn :/mnt/onboard/.adds/kobo-test-app/kobo-test-app.shCode:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
AbortedAny help would be highly appreciated :)