diff --git a/install_host.sh b/install_host.sh
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+#! /bin/bash
+
+echo "installing host environment"
+
+mkdir /build
+mkdir sysroot sysroot/usr sysroot/opt
+
+git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools
+wget https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.12/5.12.8/single/qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8.tar.xz
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riscv/riscv-poky/master/scripts/sysroot-relativelinks.py
+
+tar xf qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8.tar.xz
+rm qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8.tar.xz
+cp -R qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8/qtbase/mkspecs/linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1/qtbase/mkspecs/linux-arm-gnueabihf-g++
+sed -i -e 's/arm-linux-gnueabi-/arm-linux-gnueabihf-/g' qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8/qtbase/mkspecs/linux-arm-gnueabihf-g++/qmake.conf
+
+mv qt-everywhere-src-5.12.8 qt_src
+