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Provide an initial list of build dependancies for Debian based systems. Other distributions will be added separately. Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
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libcamera
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**A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS**
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Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing
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operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must
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run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a
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dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved
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to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and
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Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific
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closed-source solution.
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To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started
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collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be
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open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born
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out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based
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systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
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Getting Started
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To build and install:
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::
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meson build
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cd build
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ninja
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ninja install
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Dependencies
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The following Debian/Ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
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Other distributions may have differing package names:
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A C++ toolchain: [required]
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Either {g++, clang}
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for libcamera: [required]
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meson ninja-build
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for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
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pkg-config libudev-dev
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for qcam: [optional]
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qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5
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for documentation: [optional]
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python3-sphinx doxygen
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