In order to run qt applications in WEGA-AM335x follow below procedure. Regarding "qmake", you don't need to ptxdist build compile system for qmake, just download and extract qt-cross-hf.tar.bz2 in "/opt" folder in your PC or Laptop. Eg : $ cd /opt $ sudo tar -xvf qt-cross-hf.tar.bz2 Give the path of "qmake" which is in bin folder.