@misarb B2QT being a commercial product you can also ask Qt Company for support

Just wanted to say thanks! I ran into the same issue (building qtwebengine) on Ubuntu 18.04 host and this fixed it.

I'm adding it to my personal list of prerequisites for my Boot2Qt Yocto builds....

@GregWilsonLindberg said in Do B2QT programs always have to run as root:

We're building a system that runs in a Raspberry Pi3 using B2QT. Is seems to me that applications compiled to run under B2QT are always run as root. Is this true?

It is indeed possible to run a B2Qt application as user (not root), but of course the user needs access to required devices, the most fundamental ones being video and input devices.

As a small example add your user to the video and input groups:

usermod -a -G video,input myuser

and then create an appropriate XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:

mkdir /run/user/1000

and set the corresponding value in /etc/default/qt.
Last, adjust the value of User= parameter in the systemd service (e.g.: /lib/systemd/system/qtlauncher.service).

Additional permissions may be required for other features like reproducing audio, etc, but with the above tweaks the application should at least start the B2Qt application as myuser.