This is the guide that I went through to successfully set the environment. If you get stuck on something, feel free to have a look at the references in the bottom most. These are the steps that worked for me so I hope it helps. Just making sure of the dependencies sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 libstdc++6:i386 ia32-libs Assuming that you can get access to the root Set up Cross compiler Download and install wget -c https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.4-2018.05/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-6.4.1-2018.05-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz tar xf gcc-linaro-6.4.1-2018.05-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz export CC=`pwd`/gcc-linaro-6.4.1-2018.05-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- Test installation ${CC}gcc --version Download qt source #do this in a directory that is not in your root filesystem, i.e. ~ git clone git://code.qt.io...