I've read plenty of discussions on various possibilities why such a thing can happen however all are about some missing library on the system where the binaries are deployed. This is not my case.
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 with latest Raspbian and a Debian 8 notebook with x86-64 Intel architecture and a Qt Creator 3.2.1 installed on the second, where I cross-compile my binaries using the arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ (using the Emdebian repository). I am not using the optimized compiler provided in the official RPi github repository.
Here is the prequal to my problem. After much sweat and swearing I managed to cross-compile and deploy my binary from the notebook onto the RPi2. And here is the problem:
When I try to run my binary from withing Qt Creator (which connects to the RPi2 via SSH, transfers files via SFTP and is logged in as my only RPi user (hence "access issue" is excluded here for sure)) on my notebook I get:
Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
When I try to run my binary directly on my RPi it runs without a single issue.
As I've posted on stackoverflow my code contains only pure C++ writing a text file to the directory where the binary is upon execution. Nothing weird going on there.
So the main question here is is this a Qt Creator related issue or something that goes much deeper? I have no idea how exactly Qt Creator internally runs the binary on the remote system. If I connect via SSH to my RPi via terminal and execute the binary it works fine. So it has to do something with the way Qt Creator executes it. Note that executing the ARM binary on my notebook returns what we all expect (RPiCrossCompileRemoteTest is the name of my binary):
bash: ./RPiCrossCompileRemoteTest: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error So Qt Creator neither starts the binary straight onto the RPi nor tries to start it on my notebook (otherwise it would have given me the format error from above).
Any ideas how I can proceed towards resolving this? I have been fighting with this issue for a couple of days all in vain. :-/