Laurent Pinchart
5af6a1a012
The controls namespace isn't documenting, making it impossible to reference the variables it contains. Furthermore, within the documentation page for the control_ids.h file, links from overview to detailed variable documentation are broken for the same reason. Both issues can be fixed by documenting the controls namespace. Unfortunately doxygen then fails to parse the initialisers for the controls global variables correctly and considers them as functions. To work around this, modify the control_ids.cpp generation script to hide the variables from doxygen, but still expose their documentation. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org> Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
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libcamera
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**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.
Getting Started
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To build and install:
::
meson build
cd build
ninja
ninja install
Dependencies
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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