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Laurent Pinchart 9a61a13466 meson.build: Switch to C++14
C++14 is a minor release that doesn't introduce major new concepts or
paradigms compared to C++11, but brings two useful changes for us:

- std::make_unique allows dropping our custom implementation in utils.
- Functions returning constexpr are not assumed to be const anymore,
  which is needed to create a standard-conformant span implementation.

All the g++ and clang++ versions we support and test (g++-5 onwards and
clang++6 onwards) support C++14. However, due to a defect in the
original C++14 specification, solved in N4387 ([1]), compilation would
fail on g++-5 due to the use of std::map::emplace() with a non-copyable
value type. It turns out we can easily fix it by switching to the
explicit piecewise emplace() overload.

There is thus really nothing holding back the switch. Let's do it, and
update the coding style accordingly.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4387

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
2020-01-14 19:06:40 +02:00
Documentation meson.build: Switch to C++14 2020-01-14 19:06:40 +02:00
include libcamera: camera: Remove the prepared state 2020-01-12 16:10:38 +01:00
licenses licenses: add Apache-2.0 license 2019-08-12 10:34:13 +02:00
package/gentoo/media-libs/libcamera libcamera: controls: Auto-generate control_ids.h and control_ids.cpp 2019-10-05 20:02:51 +03:00
src meson.build: Switch to C++14 2020-01-14 19:06:40 +02:00
test rkisp1: add pipeline test for rkisp1 2020-01-13 22:45:46 +00:00
utils utils: checkstyle.py: Support single line hunks 2020-01-07 16:37:28 +00:00
.clang-format clang-format: Don't indent namespaces 2019-09-23 09:50:08 +03:00
.gitignore git: Add .gitignore file 2018-12-14 13:23:07 +00:00
meson.build meson.build: Switch to C++14 2020-01-14 19:06:40 +02:00
meson_options.txt v4l2: v4l2_compat: Add V4L2 compatibility layer 2020-01-03 19:53:20 -05:00
README.rst README: Simplify a bit the build instructions 2019-11-18 02:28:55 +02:00

.. section-begin-libcamera

===========
 libcamera
===========

**A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS**

Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing
operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must
run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a
dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved
to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and
Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific
closed-source solution.

To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started
collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be
open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born
out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based
systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.

.. section-end-libcamera
.. section-begin-getting-started

Getting Started
---------------

To fetch the sources, build and install:

::

  git clone git://linuxtv.org/libcamera.git
  cd libcamera
  meson build
  ninja -C build install

Dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The following Debian/Ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
Other distributions may have differing package names:

A C++ toolchain: [required]
	Either {g++, clang}

for libcamera: [required]
	meson ninja-build python3-yaml

for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
	pkg-config libudev-dev

for qcam: [optional]
	qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5

for documentation: [optional]
	python3-sphinx doxygen

.. section-end-getting-started