[libcamera-devel] Question about libcamera headers

[David Plowman]

Thanks, all good now!

David

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 09:46, Kieran Bingham
<kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On 29/06/2020 09:43, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:17:51AM +0100, David Plowman wrote:
> >> Hi everyone
> >>
> >> Probably a silly question, but maybe someone can enlighten me...
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build my libcamera apps against the version that I've
> >> "installed" on my Pi. In my file I have "#include
> >> <libcamera/camera_manager.h>", but I get a "header not found" error.
> >> And it's right, camera_manager.h is actually installed to
> >> /usr/local/include/libcamera/libcamera (note the double libcamera).
> >> But including libcamera/libcamera/camera_manager.h fails too when it
> >> meets the includes inside camera_manager.h.
> >>
> >> I assume I've missed something obvious... any suggestions?
> >
> > You need to pass -I/usr/local/include/libcamera to the compiler. The
> > compiler (and linker) flags are provided by pkg-config:
> >
> > $ pkg-config --cflags camera
> > -I/usr/local/include/libcamera
> >
> > You may need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/
> > depending on your system configuration.
> >
> > I would recommend building your libcamera application with meson, it
> > will then handle pkg-config for you.
>
> There is a small 'simple-cam' test app that might be a useful starting
> point for you for the meson.build file.
>
>         https://github.com/kbingham/simple-cam/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Regards
> --
> Kieran