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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>
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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.
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.. section-begin-getting-started
Getting Started
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To fetch the sources, build and install:
::
git clone git://linuxtv.org/libcamera.git
cd libcamera
meson build
ninja -C build 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
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