Unable to create a Proton-Native App in Raspberry Pi 4B

[shibichakkaravarthy]

I am trying to create an Touch Interface that can control Electric Appliances in out Home with Raspberry Pi 4B single-board ARM based computer. Since I'm a react native developer, I choose Proton-Native rather than python. But I was unable to create the App. There was some error regarding the node-qt-napi but I was able to create an App in macOS without any issue. Please help me with this. Here is the whole output from the Terminal...

`**pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npx proton-native-cli init MyApp
npx: installed 92 in 13.429s
Creating a new Proton Native app on /home/pi/MyApp

Installing packages... This may take a few minutes.

node-qt-napi@0.0.3 install /home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi
cross-env JOBS=max node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://github.com/kusti8/node-qt-napi/releases/download/0.0.3/qt-v0.0.3-4-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for node-qt-napi@0.0.3 and node@14.15.2 (node-v83 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
Package Qt5Core was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing Qt5Core.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'Qt5Core' found Package Qt5Gui was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing Qt5Gui.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'Qt5Gui' found
Package Qt5Widgets was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing Qt5Widgets.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'Qt5Widgets' found gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-l Qt5Core Qt5Gui Qt5Widgets' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: gypfailed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:351:16) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:277:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 5.4.79-v7l+ gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4/qt.node" "--module_name=qt" "--module_path=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4" "--napi_version=7" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=4" "--node_napi_label=napi-v4" gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi gyp ERR! node -v v14.15.2 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0 gyp ERR! not ok node-pre-gyp ERR! build error node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4/qt.node --module_name=qt --module_path=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4 --napi_version=7 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=4 --node_napi_label=napi-v4' (1) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5) node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 5.4.79-v7l+ node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v14.15.2 node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.13.0 node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4/qt.node --module_name=qt --module_path=/home/pi/MyApp/node_modules/node-qt-napi/bindings/napi-v4 --napi_version=7 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=4 --node_napi_label=napi-v4' (1) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! node-qt-napi@0.0.3 install:cross-env JOBS=max node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the node-qt-napi@0.0.3 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-12-25T18_01_05_645Z-debug.log**
`

[shibichakkaravarthy]

Any update on this?

[misaeldossantos]

maybe you need add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to environment variable with the directory where you installed qt

[Diana0604]

You need to install qt in the raspberry before hand. I followed these instructions.