[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 3/3] readme: Provide build requirements

Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Wed Aug 14 13:48:53 CEST 2019


Hi Laurent,

On 14/08/2019 12:27, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:58:17AM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> Provide an initial list of build dependancies for debian based systems.
> 
> s/debian based/Debian-based/

Ack.

> 
>> Other distributions will be added separately.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
>> ---
>>  README.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
>> index 0f64e076a9c0..1d4a84996d06 100644
>> --- a/README.rst
>> +++ b/README.rst
>> @@ -29,3 +29,24 @@ To build and install:
>>    cd build
>>    ninja
>>    ninja install
>> +
>> +Dependencies
>> +------------
>> +
>> +The following debian/ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
> 
> s/debian/Debian/
> s/ubuntu/Ubuntu/
> 
Ack.


>> +Other distributions may have differing package names:
>> +
>> +A C++ toolchain: [required]
>> +	Either {g++, clang++}
> 
> I think the package is named clang, not clang++

Hrm ... How did I get that mixed up ... I remember going through and
installing each of these in a clean ubuntu container...

Ho hum ... good spot

Fixed.


>> +
>> +for libcamera: [required]
>> +	meson ninja-build
> 
> meson depends on ninja-build, do we need to mention the latter
> explicitly ? I don't mind if you think we should.

I like that it shows we depend on both.


>> +
>> +for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
>> +	pkg-config libudev-dev
>> +
>> +for qcam: [optional]
>> +	qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5
>> +
>> +for documentation: [optional]
>> +	python3-sphinx doxygen
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> 

-- 
Regards
--
Kieran


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